Autograph letter signed : Carnforth, to Tom Turner, 1943 January 8.

Concerning Turner's recent debilitating illness and the mixed blessings of being confined to one's bed; regretting that the recipient will be unable to attend a production of "one of my most complex and difficult plays" to be performed by a local civic theater in Yorkshire; observations on reviews recently published in the Times Literary Supplement on the subject of Rossetti and the dubious merits of Violet Hunt's book Wife of Rossetti as a source of information ("The survivors of those circles tell me that her mother was a chromo-lithographic gossip, and a dangerous one: and that she improved on her mother"); a performance of his poem "Before daybreak" which he did not attend but heard over the wireless ("The music is very clever, and the orchestral detail imaginative: but I did not hear many words, and I fancy the chorus needed more rehearsing"); his satisfaction at hearing that Turner's daughter has been happy at Oxford and his hope that she will continue there untroubled by the disturbances of war.