| Content Description | Addresses her 'Dear Catherine'; has just finished 'your Burns' ['Life of Robert Burns' by Catherine Carswell] and it has left her 'sad and bitter for him'; the last pages are 'simple and impressive' and 'somehow so Scotch'; feels Lawrence would have approved; 'Barby' [Frieda's daughter] is much better; describes Lawrence's suffering as always 'worthwhile'; does not know where she is without him and he will 'never be dead ... even his death seems life again'; expresses regret that they attack her 'on that Burns book'; mentions that 'Monty' [Frieda's son Charles Montague Weekley] is on his honeymoon and is thankful that two of her children are 'launched'; describes 'Barby's 'great sensitiveness' without her [Frieda's] 'strength to balance it'; feels a bond with 'everybody that Lawrence was fond of'; signed 'Frieda'.
Date: the letter was originally undated and has been annotated, possibly by John Carswell, with '1931'; the reverse of the letter also bears black ink mark and annotation by an unknown hand |