Autograph letter signed : The Old Park, Penn, Buckinghamshire, to Tom Turner, 1941 December 25.

Referring to a recent bout of flu he has suffered, questioning the utility of psychology in telling "one anything of the least real value about oneself that one was not already aware of", mentioning Richard Church, with whom he has corresponded, and expressing his admiration for Church's work, explaining that he loves to criticize what he reads or sees, but detests "having to find a printable vocabulary for expressing all this", noting that he "once wrote that a certain author now deceased reminded me of a slug on a cabbage" and that "a poet might remind me of a tipsy cake or Stilton - a mere compliment & yet one he might easily take amiss"; that "John Williams's book is back at their flat in Twickenham, which is ready for them to reoccupy, but that his wife has not been well enough to return; expressing his delight in a "very solid" book of poetry Turner has sent him (possibly a copy of the Moxon Tennyson), illustrated with woodcuts by Millais, Rossetti, and Holman Hunt; asking to read a paper by Turner when he can "spare it for a day or two."