Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, to Siegfried Sassoon, 1932 May 19.

Telling Sassoon that a poem of his "kept me laughing all Monday and I have been chuckling at intervals ever since. It is a perfect picture -- but one that only you and I and a few others can understand and enjoy to the full"; writing that Caroline Doughty has sent him "your buckram uniquery" (a reference to a copy of Sassoon's Sonnets and Verses, which was published in a small private print run in 1909); adding that Doughty said "money would be welcome [...] in these difficult times"; suggesting that Sassoon attest to the copy's "extreme rarity"; describing the book further: "There is no letter in it now & though there are some valuable corrections, there is nothing whatever that discloses the name of 'the author', whose presentation inscription to [Charles] Doughty appears on a flyleaf"; sending him the title of an "unfortunate story" by Thomas Hardy, "Old Mrs. Chundle"; writing of a "Lytton Strachey portrait": "If Lady Ottoline chooses to leave it to us, so much the better -- If she doesn't, it can't be helped"; inviting Sassoon to visit.