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Correspondence from Betty May to David Garnett*
248 High St Rochester Kent
Friday 1964
Dear David
At last the housing [illegible] has given me a flat. Unfortunately it is a way out in the wilds. It seems I shall be extremely lonely.
I must admit it is a lovely flat & I should be in sometime next week, for the moment I am here to clean up my things. They presented me with a bill for £4.0.0 which I must pay before I accept the keys and rent book. It seems I have to pay one week in advance.
I do not know if I have any more money to come to me but I believe I have £40— or as near as. I wonder if it is possible to lend me £15.—. I have so much I have to buy & my most fearful debts that must be paid.
I would like you if you possibly can, send here.
My new address will be after about Thursday I should imagine.
Mrs Betty May Sedgwick 5 Skree Court Strood, Kent
* 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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