'George Moore�s 'Avowals' is highly agreeable.'
'. . . There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure. G. Moore�s 'Avowals' and the letters of Chekhov . . .'
'. . . and I wish to tell you that it was the first chapters of 'A Mummer�s Wife' which opened my eyes to the romantic nature of the district that I had blindly inhabited for over twenty years. You are indeed the father of all my Five Towns books.'
