| Content Description | Regrets that she is unable to join them for a meal the next day; invites her to join them for a 'scrap' on Tuesday and gives directions for reaching them by No.18 bus or from Russell Square tube station; draws a sketch of the immediate route; has received a letter from the War Office refusing him permission to return to Cornwall which leaves him 'very mad, but not shaken'; is determined to return; asks how many people she has asked for Tuesday [to see Mozart's 'Seraglio']; enquires about [Robert] Nicholls' health; asks if they could bring along a Miss [Dorothy] Yorke 'American girl - elegant but poor' who lives in the house and whom they like very much.
Mentions having lunched with John Galsworthy the previous day, 'sawdust bore'; feels the possibility of 'some happiness' for all soon - a 'certain jolliness creeping up from the unknown'; urges her not to be late on Tuesday; signed 'D.H. Lawrence'; adds a note that Frieda is making an evening dress.
A reprographic copy of this item was formerly held in the collection, with the reference number La Pc 6/5. |