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Covers Lyn's illness, and John's work on Charles II and his girlfriends. Suggests Lyn subscribe to the International Press Cutting Bureau, Fleet Street. Advice about Arnold Bennett's sister who is unable to support herself after his death. Suggests asking Leonard and Virginia Woolf to pass the matter on to Hugh Walpole, or contacting Lord Beaverbrook at the Evening Standard. Doubts whether Civil List would include the sister because there is already a widow and Dorothy Bennett. Ends with a picture of Lyn being hauled up the stairs in a pram.

Covers her correspondence with Mrs Rosling, and her impending unemployment. Commiserates on Lyn's mushroom poisoning. Announces that she is going to the South of France then to Hamspray on her return. Mentions that she went to the fireworks at the Crystal Palace with Frankie Birrell and Raymond Mortimer, who are travelling to Venice. Refers to her visit to Charleston where she saw Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Virginia and Leonard Woolf and Lytton Strachey

Thanks Lyn for her letter. Complains of his own illness and depression. Describes his stay at Long Barn with Vita Sackville-West, Raymond Mortimer and Dorothy Wellesley during which they were all invalids. Mentions Vita's son Ben Nicolson. Invites Lyn to Sussex and proposes she also visit Rodmell. Reports that he has almost finished the Merimee letters. Discusses Virginia Woolf's novel "The Waves", which he says Vanessa has a copy of in order to design the cover. Refers to a "heart-to-heart" talk about the Hogarth Press that he had with Frankie Birrell and others.

Discusses potential timescale for his next meeting with Lyn and his travel plans. Describes Vita Sackville-West and Virgina Woolfs' improvements to Monk's House, Rodmell. Mentions the state of economy and John Maynard Keynes' pessimism in their conversations on the subject. Reports that Raymond Mortimer and Roger Fry are staying with him. Gives his views on letters of Merimee and Walpole. Refers to an "excursion into the beau monde" which he found unchanged, where he socialised with Lord and Lady Gage, Maurice Baring and others. Mentions dining with Fanny and Ralph.

Writes that Lyn's notes on Mrs - are so clear that a letter incorporating them can be sent. Discusses whose signatures to attach. Mentions Lord Arnold, Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Galsworthy (?) and Trevelyan.

Reports that he is writing to Virginia Woolf and Galsworthy. Believes five signatures will suffice.

Expresses her distress at Virginia Woolf's death. Mentions that she is in exile in America with William and Edward. Refers to their correspondence about fuchias and life, and expresses her optimism for the human race. Reports that Max is still in Cambridge and Yda is married to "Peter Hazell of Hazell Viney & Watson [sic]".

Refers to Leonard's television appearance. Mentions that she has heard about Quentin Bell's prospective biography of Virginia Woolf. Asks permission to publish extracts of Virginia's letters to her in a "Brief Lives with letters". Mentions Monologue Books and her biography of Alison Cairns. Reports that she has two grandchildren, Sarah and Mark, and that Yda is about to become a grandmother.

Sympathises with Leonard's reluctance to grant permission to publish Virginia Woolf's letters. Hopes he will allow her to publish some of the letters she encloses. Anticipates the next volume of Leonard's memoirs.

Thanks Leonard for his permission to publish some of the Virginia Woolf's letters. Writes that she encloses copies in triplicate of four letters, and details their content. Holds back the letter of 25 April 1930. Mentions having read William Plomer's review in the Listener of the latest volume of Leonard's memoirs, and her anticipation of getting her own copy.