5 April
5 April
5 April 1920
I wish you could have seen Monaco with the minute soldiers guarding the palace & the little pepper-tree fringed roads that lead up to it. Monaco is certainly your town. But oh! I do hate the middle class. Nice is the paradis des bourgeois.
All the same Boge the Riviera isn't over rated. Its superb. More than that one gets fearfully fond of it. It does in bits remind me so much of home - of N.Z. the rocks and sea and the flowers. I am afraid I do want a Broomies here as well - two tiny houses - one in Sussex one not far from Menton. Would you hate that my darling?
My darling Boge
Ive just got your note about Je ne parle pas. No, I certainly won't agree to those excisions if there were 500000000 copies in existence. They can keep their old £40 & be hanged to them. Shall I pick the eyes out of a story for £40. Im furious with Sadler. No, Ill never agree. Ill supply another story but that is all. The outline would be all blurred. It must have those sharp lines. The Times didn't object. As to The Wind Blows I put it in because so many people had admired it. (Yes its Autumn II but a little different.) Virginia, Lytton - and queer people like Mary Hamilton & Bertie all spoke so strongly about it I felt I must put it in. But this had better be held over till I get back. Ill never consent. Ill take the book away first. Dont worry about it. Just tell Sadler hes a fool. As to The German Governess it was on my list & I asked you to include it!! (Caught out!) But dont you worry love. It will have to wait. Of course I wont consent! [To J.M. Murry in Collected Letters, 6 April 1920]