Date of writing from Nicolson.
Dated "Saturday. Asheham."
Initialed "V.W."
Complimenting him on the poem "To V.S. with a book" and lightly commenting on her inability to answer him in verse "I wait the rhymes and they won't come. I compare dumbness with your exquisite larks carolling. And then I remember how its been said that I can't even criticise verse--which are reasons enough you will agree to keep me silent"; also commenting on Edward Marsh's volumes of Georgian poetry "you have quite undoubtedly twitched aside the veil and penetrated to the heart which perversely enough resists the solemn and premediated assaults of Eddie's strenuous young men. I read them in the coal center the other night during the bombardment and turned to you when the explosions had subsided"; asking if she can buy a copy to send to "an elderly philanthropist [Margaret Llewelyn Davies] in bed with a cold"; (in postscript) writing "Did you ever pull off the hood of a scarlet flower whose name I forget? That's what I see you doing, and letting loose scores of them in the fog and frost too ..."