| Content Description | Addresses him 'Dear Don'; comments on the 'trews'; has done with the story and can just correct it where it needs; refers to the 'Halliday affair' (the portrayal of Philip Heseltine as 'Halliday' in 'Women in Love'); he 'gave Halliday lank black hair and Pussum lank yellow hair'; [Martin] Secker writes that [Philip] Heseltine is going to bring a libel action against the book; describes Heseltine as a 'thoroughly rotten sort'.
Mabel Dodge Sterne has offered them a furnished abode house in Taos, New Mexico; discusses Taos and asks if Carswell knows anything of it; he is expecting 'Sea and Sardinia' from New York; will send him and Cath[erine Carswell] a copy; [Thomas] Seltzer is bringing out 'Tortoises' as a Chap-book; will send that too; wanted to send Cath[erine Carswell] 'Adolf' but has 'lost the MS and printed copy and everything'.
Seltzer wants to bring out the poems 'Apostolic Beasts' as a chap-book; would like a cover design 'representing the four beasts of the Evangelists - from the Apocalypse - Man, Lion, Bull and Eagle' and urges Carswell to tell him if he ever sees one.
Everybody hated 'Aaron's Rod' but Selzer thinks it wonderful; remarks that if Catherine Carswell had called her novel ['Camomile'] 'Rose-hearted Camelia' then 'they'd have snapped it up'; adds 'Pah-canaille. Canaille, canaglia, Schweinhunderei'.
Comments on Carswell's involvement in the [Sir Edgar] Speyer case; remarks on the Catholic Church trying to form a political world league; wouldn't be surprised if they 'effected a mild sort of revolution here'; adds a postscript about birds in the garden'; signed 'D.H. Lawrence'.
The letter is a TS copy, made by John Carswell; the original is held in the Beinecke Library, Yale University. |
| Publication Note | Aldous Huxley, ed. 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (London: Heinemann, 1932)
James T. Boulton, Margaret H. Boulton and Gerald M. Lacy, eds. 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) vol VI, pp 231-32 |