ABSTRACT
John Middleton Murry There are two important things. We got on well. He was so splendidly simple. It was exactly as you thought – jam and egg-wegs1 – a condition of life into which one slides with a sigh of relief. The old man was everything I had dreamed – everything. The second thing was that he had read ‘Bliss’ & ‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel’2 – and with regard to this second he told me to take you this message. He thought it wonderfully well done – you had given him those two women – and you were to go on, treating that as a prelude, and continue the story of their lives. Mrs Hardy told me he had laughed & laughed at the interview between Cyril and the old man. That ought to be sweet to you, darling (p. 338).
