9 May
9 May
9 May 1920
2 Portland Villas, Hampstead - London
Dear Mrs Millin,
I am just returned from abroad and the editor has hander letter. Please forgive me for not replying to it sooner. It gave me such very great pleasure.
I wished I had said more about your book. I have felt ever since the notice appeared that I didn't really do it justice - didn't express as I should like to have expressed, how ‘original' it was - how different from the many novels, how anxious it made the reader feel to know more of this author's work. It had some wonderfully good moments - I kept feeling: if she can keep this up - if she does keep this up in her next book - if she goes on ‘freeing' herself and exploring her own gift this woman is going to be a rare writer!
Im very interested to hear you write short stories. I want to ask you, on behalf of the editor, if you would send us some to see - would you? We are going to publish one short story a week in the Athenaeum, starting in June. And I shall look out for your new novel - all success to it.
Your delightful letter makes me so happy. I like to think of us writers, scattered far, and making a gesture of friendship towards each other. [To Sarah Gertrude Millin in Collected Letters, c. 9 May 1920]