[No surviving envelope]
[7 August 1935]
IMorley, Frank Vigormonopolises typewriter for joint story;e2 amFabers, the1935 summer holiday with;c5 handicapped also by the fact that Frank has the monopoly of the only typewriter, for a chapter of a story he is writing – we are all three supposed to be writing alternative chapters. I was happy – and surprised! to get your letter – IWahl, Jean André;a1 amBussy, Dorothy (née Strachey);a3 sorry I left behind M. Jean Wahl’s English Verse, given me by Dorothy Bussy, which I have not yet read. Keeptravels, trips and plansEH's 1934–5 year in Europe;b4TSE's Campden birthday weekend;e4 the tie till I come! By the way the 28th Sep. is not my birthday, but I shall be equally glad to come. It would be lovely if you would come up for a night before the end of this month. Will you try to?
The weather has been perfect, & the visit successful – I am sunburnt pretty well all over. IMorleys, the;e9 return with the Morleys tomorrow , probably spending the night somewhere on the way, & getting home on Friday night – so that I can write you a proper letter over the weekend.
Did I not think, yesterday, of what it was like a week ago, my nightingale?
3.DorothyBussy, Dorothy (née Strachey) Bussy (1865–1960) – one of thirteen children of Sir Richard and Jane Strachey; sister of Lytton – was married to the French painter Simon Bussy. Chief translator of André Gide, and his intimate. Her novel, Olivia, was published anonymously by the Hogarth Press. See Barbara Caine, Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family (Oxford, 2005).
4.FrankMorley, Frank Vigor Vigor Morley (1899–1980), American publisher and author; a founding editor of F&F, 1929–39: see Biographical Register.