�There is an excellent article in this week Saturday Westminster, a paper of which I am very fond. It is a review by Walter de la Mare, and is that poet�s confession of Faith � My leave starts on Thursday�5 whole days � Do you not like Laurence Binyon�s verses in the Times Supplement? Those and Hardy�s and Kipling�s are the best of the bunch. Though I like Watson Grenfell and Noyes. Hardy�s grows on one. Did you ever read his last book of Short Stories�"The Changed Man"? � Have you read any of D F Lawrence? I have just finished an extraordinary book called "The White Peacock", full of arresting studies of character and most essentially breathing of earth and clouds and flowers�though not a pleasant book � we had Zeps here about a fortnight ago. Two bombs were dropped on Chelmsford itself, both on or near the Glosters billeting area. The damage was perhaps 5� worth. It cured an old lady of muscular rheumatism, indeed it made an athlete, a sprinter of her�she went down the street in her nightgown like a comet or some gravity-defying ghost.�
