Correspondence from Betty May to David Garnett*

 

     

 

50 Walton Crescent

Oxford

 

 

[undated: circa 3 September 1922]

 

 

David Dear.

 

I have some news to give you I've just got married [to Raoul Loveday] & I'm awfully happy. We are awfully poor for the moment & I'm wondering if you would lend me £5. I could pay it back sometime next week so do please help me. It's rotten of me I always seem to be asking you for money.

 

We are coming back to town on Sunday & I do want you to meet my trueloved [?].

 

Love

 

Betty May Loveday

 

 

* David Garnett (1892–1981) was an author and wrote eleven novels as well as his autobiography; he edited the letters of T.E. Lawrence and the novels of Thomas Love Peacock. He and Francis Birrell started a bookshop; he helped found the Nonesuch Press and the publishing firm of Rupert Hart-Davis.

 

 

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