Autograph letter signed : Kew, to Siegfried Sassoon, 1944 November 12.

Thanking Sassoon for looking after his books; writing that he met Charles St. John Hornby (of the Ashendene Press) yesterday and discussed how Hornby had been keeping his book collection safe: "He is a Trustee of the British Museum and he was able to store his principal book treasures in the museum cellars. But, with all the resources of W.H. Smith & Son at his disposal, he cannot now get them transferred to Chantmarle. So I am afraid I shall not be able to relieve your shelves for some time. For the present, with doodles and superdoodles about, it would of course be undesirable"; mentioning that he will be greatly interested to read Sassoon's reflections on Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Charlotte Mew and Thomas Hardy in the forthcoming volume of Sassoon's memoirs; clarifying details about their meetings: "I have been looking into my diaries and I find that it was on 16 May 1919 that I took you to tea with Charlotte and her sister Anne and Alida Klementaski. I think this was your first meeting & that the only other one was at that immensely successful lunch when Gooden [possibly the illustrator Stephen Gooden] was present"; recalling a visit to Blunt: "Our visit to Newbuildings was 14-16 June 1919, when WSB was nearly 79. We climbed to the top of Belloc's windmill to see his daughters. Two stallions were led out & you read some of your poems to WSB, Dorothy Carleton, and me"; enclosing an "antiquarian letter" written from Heytesbury (no longer with the item).