page_0002

through October. Thursday
or Friday afternoon this week
would suit me, & any day
during the second week which
suits your convenience. I should
however like to have a
couple of days warning so as to
keep myself free from
other engagements [my telephone
number is 58181 in case
you have to alter any arrangment,
but at present I am not skilful
enough for a conversation - a
message would reach me].

I am not surprised by the
success of your book. The few
reviews I have seen did not
do it justice. The reviewers -
at least the last I read -
wasted their time in comparisons
between your life of C. and that
of Belloc. His historical work is
always inaccurate, prejudiced, and
extravagant in its judgment
of men & things. A comparison
between your life and Morley's
would have been of more value.

I think you succeed in
achieving the aim stated in
your preface - to give a portrait
of a soul in its adventures through
life, and the conclusions &
summary set forth on pp. 517-531
seem to me to bear out your
promise, and to be both just and
well expressed.

Morley's object was a different