Correspondence from Betty May to David Garnett*

 

     

 

5 Skree Court

Bligh Way,

Strood

Kent.

 

 

30th 1976 [30 November 1976]

 

 

Dear David

 

May I wish you a Merry Xmas & all you wish for the New Year.

 

How are you keeping in health.

 

I haven't been feeling at all well.

 

I get these rather giddy feelings & I don't go out except to pay my rent every Monday morning.

 

My friend Iris does my weekend shopping for me. Pat has come to [illegible] me, you remember the girl Billy [Betty's deceased husband] fell in love with. She comes up every Sunday to see how I am.

 

She is rather attractive and dresses well.

 

And now David I don't know what to write about. Nothing exciting happens to me.

 

So I will close with all 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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