A sequence of letters, hitherto mostly unpublished, to the Editor of The Times Literary Supplement. Introduction by Philip Horne. With two tipped-in portraits. Printed at the Old Hall Press, Yorkshire. 300 numbered copies. 1994.

“Dear Bruce Richmond,
I hang my head in shame even while I address you in this fashion. But be reassured — what I have to tell you isn't that I can't do the bit of a Balzac, but only that I must ask for your indulgence for my letting you have it for a June appearance, rather than for any one of the now impossible Thursdays of May.”