Typed letter signed : London, to R. W. Chapman, 1930 November 13.

Saying that she would be happy to help Chapman with the Bibliography, but that she knows little about the critical writing on Austen: "I have never made a study of her, save in her own books"; praising the Austen criticism written by A. C. Bradley and E. M. Forster; saying that she has not read the work of Mary Lascelles, John Bailey, "Mr Lynd", or "Mrs Meynell"; writing of Austen and criticism in general: "I suppose that the amount of writing about her, either in introductions or separate articles is vast, but I feel that she generally slips out of the critics hands. That I expect was one of my reasons for remaining silent on Persuasion, when you asked me -- although it is one of my favourites. And then I begin to doubt that if one writes novels one should also criticise them. It is too difficult"; mentioning that she has read only the letters by Austen in the "usual family lives" and would very much like to read the edition of the Letters that Chapman is working on: "You can judge by this what a casual reader I am"; writing that she is interested in the Oxford Book of Greek Verse, but would only buy if it includes a translation ("a translation is a necessity for me"), and that she has gone through the Clarendon Press catalog and "could not resist ordering a handful of books"; adding in a note at the top of the letter that she suspects that the most interesting things that have been said about Austen were "said in talk or in private letters: Scott: Macaulay: Charlotte Bronte; I think Darwin."