Autograph letter signed : Sintra, to Graham Greene, [ca. 1953].

Apologizing for using paper from his farm-ledger (the letter is written on graph paper), but explaining that "Xmas mails ran me out of my stock of note-paper and I've been too busy on my farm to go to town and replenish my stock of it"; granting Greene permission to quote from his translation of St. John of the Cross; saying that he would certainly have stopped by for a drink if he were in England, but that he has been living in Spain and Portugal for several years now; writing that he shares a farm with his friend Rob Lyle; describing the area around Sintra: "It is very nice here at the foot of the Cintra range with the plains and the sea in front. The almond blossom is out already and the sun is quite warm. We are on the borders of the lovely vineyard country of Collares; the wine of Collares is about the best in Spain or Portugal, and I hope to leave my old bones here to fertilise it"; adding that he has just finished a translation of a novel, O Primo Bazilio, by Eça de Quieroz, "a very great Portuguese novelist. I think he would interest you with whom he has several points in common"; saying that he will tell his publishers to send Greene a copy when the book is out.