Resigning himself to disagreement over the seriousness with which Dickens expressed concern that he would be unable to find powdered wigs in North America; calling Wagenknecht's book "one of the three or four most valuable books on Dickens of the last quarter of a century"; arguing that pacifism is "too illogical for me" and criticizing conscientious objectors, but expressing support for the League of Nations, "which your country turned down to the heart-break of that noble idealist, Wilson"; describing the previous month's "annual conference of the Dickens Fellowship at Bath", at which "they made quite a fuss of me, and put me on the toast list at the banquet to propose the toast of Horace Annesley Vachell, the chairman"; expressing trouble finding time to write "two Dickensian books on the stocks".