Letter from Richard Dawkins, Llanddulas, to Thomas Balston, 1946 November 7 : Typescript signed.

Writing to accept an invitation to visit them for Christmas; stating that he is recovering from a cold; mentioning that "Atkinson does mellow a great deal, but he cant [sic] get over his old personal prejudices, and they are a good deal in the way in SCR"; hoping that "Macmillan do as they should about Martin", noting that his "curiosity is a good deal roused about Fuseli, but from what Osbert Sitwell, or is it his brother? have written there seems to be a good deal of underground stuff there.", and that he "missed (E.H.W.?) Meyerstein at Oxford", adding "artistic byeways of the 19th century are not quite so much his way as the literary slums of the 18th; he knows a lot, and most kindly, despite rows, visited me when I was laid up."; informing Balston that he thinks Daniel "will do well" and that his tutors are "both good men"; writing that he is thinking of going to London for a few days and might visit Balston with "the Dickeys", and that he has not gotten any proofs from Cambridge and has "no definite date when they are to be inspected. A rather large quarto book of 550 pages odd will need a good deal of proofreading; masses of footnotes and cross references and all the rest of it."