Correspondence from Betty May to David Garnett*

 

     

 

248 High St

Rochester

Kent

 

 

16 1961

 

 

Dear David

 

Thank you so much for the cheque. I did not ask you for anything though.

 

Your letter has made me tremendously happy & I am beginning to see things from a different angle.

 

I must admit that my tempers are pretty appalling & I have so little control.

 

I will try very hard to adjust myself to things generally.

 

I suppose I am rather jealous too.

 

I do want to thank you again for your lovely letter, which I shall look at again when things are not so bright.

 

My 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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