Autograph letter signed : Cranleigh, to Siegfried Sassoon, 1931 June 28.

Writing "[t]hough we may appear to be old mugwumps, we are really in the van of progress. What we think today, England (including the United States) will think tomorrow"; referring to John Collier's novel His Monkey Wife: or Married to a Chimp and Collier's new edition of John Aubrey's Brief Lives; quoting a passage from Aubrey on Shakespeare; giving his opinion of E.M. Forster: "I have a tremendous admiration for his mind. It seems to me the most lucid I have ever struck. True, he makes me feel like a low boisterous bagman; but that is only because of the sort of lambency I see palely effulgent in him"; writing that he thinks Forster's novels "are made to turn on abnormalities and hysterics"; commenting that modern writers "always set out to impress. This is a feminine trait, & I think it a sign of decadence"; adding parenthetically "By the way, talking about feminine: you should see Jo Davidson's bust of Aldous [Huxley]. It is the bust of an old maid!"; writing that he will be at the club next Friday; inviting Sassoon to visit him.