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Details her gardening efforts. Mentions that her neice Sheila came to stay. Describes the village-like quality of her part of the town. Explains her anxiety about meeting Lyn after such a long time. Asks about the progress of Lyn's book [Field With Geese]. Mentions St John's College, Cambridge and asks whether Lyn knew Martin Charlesworth, a don there. Muses on the prospects of marriage for Lyn's sons, and her sister-in-law's daughters, Sheila and Catriona. Complains about having to create the School Magazine in the summer term.

Discusses 'Alison Cairns' and 'So much love, so little money'. Sends news of her brother Allan in Aden.

Imagines Lyn's busy schedule for the months ahead and tells her not to write. Reminisces about walking in Switzerland.

Thanks Lyn for her letter from Italy and recalls the two visit she made in the past to Rome and Venice. Informs Lyn that she is a long time Roman Catholic, and tells an anecdote about being drunk in a church in Venice. Anticipates Lyn's book [Field with Geese] with excitement. Sends an update on her garden.

Thanks Lyn for her letter describing her Mediterranean cruise. Gives more details of her tour in the Holy Land. Plans to visit Lyn. Mentions Lyn's new book and reports that her own "Children in Skye" is still trying to find a publisher. Explains her plans for the summer, visiting Pitlochry for the Festival plays, going on a short MacBrayne tour, seeing "Peter Grimes" at the Edinburgh Festival. Returns and comments upon the pamplet by Iris Murdoch. Reports that she and Allan ate the goose egg Lyn left her.

Asks if Lyn received her last letter and hopes that she is not ill or in trouble.

Encloses her book on Matthew Arnold [The Buried Self]. Mentions that Elizabeth Bowen and Desmond McCarthy reviewed it favourably, and that Professor Tinker of Yale and Arnold Whitridge praised it. Describes Arnold Whitridge, Matthew Arnold's grandson. Reminisces about her time walking in Switzerland in the autumn of 1946. Reports that she teaches English in a county grammar school. Expresses interest in "Ten Letter Writers". Postscript about the origin of the cover design of her book.

Returns and comments upon "Ten Letter Writers". Discusses the effect changing from one language to another when reading. Reports that she has bought 39 Whitehall Street. Describes the surrounding area which used to belong to Samuel Butler, and the work she is having done on the house. Discusses the writing of Margaret Evans, Elizabeth Myers, Kathleen Raine, Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf. Expresses interest in Professor A. A. Black's book about "Hamlet"

Refers to portraits of Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell in a museum on Fifth Avenue in New York. Mentions visiting Horace Walpole's house at Strawberry Hill and places in London connected with Thomas More, whilst on a Christian summer school. Describes her recent holiday in Switzerland, in particular her stay at Hotel Bellevue with friend and proprietress Alice Marchand. Speculates about the subject of Lyn's next book. Mentions that her friend Dorothea Mozley has brought out a book called "Letters of the Newman Family".

Thanks Lyn for the photographs of the Dove House. Reports that her book of extracts for advanced English teaching has been rejected by three publishers. Describes the weekly letters from her mother in Portree to her grandmother in Paisley which she is hoping to edit and publish.