Autograph letter signed : Kew, to Siegfried Sassoon, 1944 October 19.

Wishing George Sassoon a happy birthday and adding "may he turn out as fine and attractive a man as Wavell's only son [Archibald John Arthur Wavell], who came to talk poetry with me on Sunday -- minus his left hand which he lost a few months ago in the fighting in Burma"; writing that he has had a visit from Hilaire Belloc's daughter Elizabeth, who "suddenly burst out praising" the poems of Charlotte Mew: "You have been from the first a loyal unswerving admirer. So has Margaret Sackville. So have I. But I can seldom meet anyone who has so much as heard of her"; saying that it has been years since he has heard anything about Alida Monro (Mew's friend and the posthumous editor of her work); adding that Mew's executor is a "Miss Oliver," who lives in Isleworth with her sister "if they have not been doodled [i.e., hit by a doodlebug bomb]"; asking Sassoon whether he thinks he could persuade Faber to publish a reprint of Mew's work, with an introduction by Sassoon or Walter de la Mare: "I can see no other chance, as poetry seems to have a poor market at present"; mentioning the marriage of Edmund Blunden to Claire Margaret Poynting, and asking "[w]hat has happened to the intermediate wife?"; commenting that he is about to go to the Athenæum Club to discuss the damage to the church of St. Ouen in Rouen with D.S. MacColl: "It was hit by our bombs (not American) but how damaged I have not yet learnt. The Cathedral has lost a large part of one of its extremely beautiful aisles and the top of the Tour St. Romain"; writing that he has just spent ten days in the Cotswolds and seen "something of the Mackails" (probably referring to John William Mackail and his family); adding "He [i.e., Mackail] is 85, MacColl is 86, GBS [George Bernard Shaw] (from whom I have been hearing) is 88 -- & all going strong!"