Correspondence from Betty May to David Garnett*

 

     

 

5 Skree Court

Bligh Way

Strood

Kent.

 

 

28th 1972.

 

 

Darling David,

 

I felt a little lonely & so thought I would write you a line.

 

It would have been fun to have met your daughter to see her.

 

It puzzles me to know what is happening to this country what with the strikes & the [illegible] is dreadful. Since my accident I have been unable to go out quite so much. I get so dreadfully tired these days.

 

If only the weather would change I could go & sit in the Castle Gardens.

 

So how are you David is your back better.

 

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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