| Content Description | Addresses her as 'My dear Pamela'; has received her letter and is glad everything goes well although it will be an anxious moment when Sam[uel King] takes stock; has ordered her a copy of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' for Christmas but advises her not to read it as she will find it 'rather heavy'; adds that she should not let 'Peg' [Margaret, Emily's daughter] read it and should keep it uncut as 'its value is then higher'; encloses £2 for 'Peg' and Joan; they are to stay in Bandol for Christmas and Elsa Weekley may come with her 'Teddy' [Bernal Edward de Martelly Seaman] and 'Barby' [Barbara Weekley]; 'Barby' has been ill and Elsa wants to marry 'Teddy' in March or April; describes her as 'not wildly keen ... like the moderns'.
It is hot in the sun and 'sharp cold' in the shade which gets his 'bronchials'; they have a young Welsh writer, Rhys Davies, staying who is 'quiet and not tiring'; his grandfather was a Welsh miner and his father has a shop; he brought them a plum cake from Nice so they are already a 'bit Christmassy'; adds that Nice is getting full of English people and that it is amazing how much money the English have; hopes they are all well and comments on the illness of the King [George V] as 'depressing'; sends love and wishes them a 'jolly' Christmas; signed 'D.H.L.'
Includes a plain envelope (La Z 4/3/49/2), addressed to Mrs S. King, 16 Brooklands Rd, Sneinton Hill, Nottingham, Angleterre ; bears a blue 1f50 stamp, postmarked 'Bandol, Var'; the envelope has been numbered '18' in pencil on the verso; the envelopes for La Z 4/3/1-70 (letters from D.H. Lawrence to Emily King) were previously separated from the letters themselves and given an individual pencil number; as far as possible these envelopes have now been matched up with their corresponding letters and sub-numbered according to the letter which they originally contained. |