| Content Description | Addresses her as 'My dear Lou'; hopes that the weather improves for the following week; has heard from Secker [Martin Secker] and Hueffer [Ford Madox Hueffer] both of whom are 'very nice'; reports that his book of 'short stories' is to appear in the following spring; has been extremely busy: working on a picture for 'Mac' [Arthur William McLeod] and writing a 32 page short story in only two nights; asks whether she would like to attend the 'Suffragette procession'; mentions that Puccini's [Giacomo Puccini, 1858-1924] new opera has opened but that he cannot afford to see it as his 'debts are very deep'; does not intend to work at the weekend; a final salutation in German from Brahms [Johannes Brahms, 1833-1897, composer]; signed 'D.H. Lawrence'.
Adds a postscript in which he reports having a 'Swan [John Macallan Swan] number of the 'Studio'' (a tiger). |