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Correspondence from Betty May to David Garnett*
248 High St Rochester Kent
12th 1961
David,
I am so unhappy Billy is behaving dreadfully.
He has even deprived me of an old age pension, which he quite easily have paid.
Do you know David I have lived with Billy for twenty four years & we are both the same age [illegible].
He has fallen desperately in love with (married with one child age 2). She is aged thirty yrs & very attractive.
Of course he has had affairs before but not anything [illegible].
She is a Publican & Billy has neglected me & he is always in debt. He never leaves the pub until they close.
All through this I am forced to go on Public Assistance for I cannot countenance going on like this.
You did say you were really my friend David.
Now I have written this letter to you because I am so unhappy & I thought if you would just write a note to console me for I am utterly miserable.
My love David
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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