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Correspondence from Betty May to David Garnett*
248 High St Rochester Kent
30th 1962 [30 November 1962?]
Dear David
Billy [her husband] goes into hospital on Tuesday. It could not be otherwise.
Life has been most strenuous night & day. He will not come out again. He thinks that himself.
It would have been wonderful if I could have written something a little more aching & lovely, but there it is. I cannot tell you when I am leaving here, perhaps in two or three weeks time.
So please if you have a minute write me one of your lovely letters.
My dear love to you David.
Betty May
P.S. I feel desolate.
* 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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