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Beaton/A/A1/430/20
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- 2 Dec. (No year given.) (Creation)
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4p paper
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Is very grateful for Beaton's letter. Is entirely of Beaton's opinion. Is always surprised at any situation "offering such real and delightful possibilities as this". Has not heard anything from Harold at all. Is hard at work on his West Indies book, which Charles is taking. Is sorry about Beaton's "disintegration". Discusses the problem of injections. Hopes Beaton will photograph Clarissa, who is "one of the human beings I like and know best in the world". She asked to be put into the same number of Vogue as him. Discusses the writing of Henry James. Hates this life. Waits "feverishly" for five o'clock when he can put on his red slippers and sit and write in a little bedroom. This is a long letter; but he has unlimited leisure for letter-writing.