Correspondence from Betty May to David Garnett*

 

     

 

23 Henry St

Rochester

Kent

 

 

May 11th 1957

 

 

Dear David,

 

Thank you ever so much for the £10. It is really dear of you.

 

We are not going to stay in London only Billy has to go for a medical [illegible] there is something wrong with his chest.

 

Most of my friends have died.

 

I will write to you when I leave here & give you an address in London.

 

I am just reading a book about your talks by H. E. Bates. [illegible] like your talks you are.

 

Don't write here until you hear from me

 

You really are a darling [illegible].

 

Love,

 

Betty May

 

 

* 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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