ABSTRACT

The letter below, written when David spent a semester at Wolfson College, Oxford, served to jog my memory about this very fi ne fellow.

David’s letters to me were always printed. Here is the transcription of the previous letter:

David had mentioned Hase to me some months before he left for Oxford. I was glad to have his letter, but I did nothing about it until aft er he and Isabelle returned from Oxford. We were having lunch together one day when I mentioned his letter. Th is jump-started a brisk fl ow of fact, conjecture, and scandal.