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Includes Lyn Newman's original poetry; material relating to 'So much love, so little money' and 'Field with Geese'; a copy of 'So much love, so little money' (London: Faber and Faber, 1957) with Lyn Newman's planned amendments on interleaved pages; typescript/manuscript 'Boswell in the nursery'; typescript 'The duck who wanted a boat' with illustrations and a draft letter from Max Newman to B.L. Williamson dated 26 Apr. 1976; research for a life of Fanny Kemble, including photographs and letters; typescript article 'A cure for family tension: sending the children away at two months' submitted by Lyn Newman to The Times, with two letters dated 1958.

Thanks Lyn for her letter and two bound cases of Fanny Kembles letters.

Writes that she is in Church Stretton for the half-term. Describes her walks in the Shropshire hills. Details her attempts at house hunting. Discusses "Ten Letter Writers". Explains why she finds letters a difficult form to read. Notes Lyn's dedication to A. A. Jack and asks if she knew his pupil Charlotte Young later MacDonald. Wishes that Lyn had finished her book on Fanny Kemble. Mentions that her brother has just sent her "So much Love, So Little Money".

Asks if Mrs Panofsky's illness is serious. Enquires about the Weyls plan to go to China and reveals her own hopes to take her children to Switzerland in 1948. Reports that Max seems happy in Princeton but worries that he is not making the most of his opportunities for talk about his project with other academics. Hopes to get her map made by Paul and Marjorie Abbatt. Repeats the information about 'Ten Letter Writers' that she acquired from Leonard Woolf. Describes her trip to the Observatory and King's College Chapel. Mentions Michael and Margareta and Hella's sister. Refers to the transportation of the Fanny Kemble letters.

Suggests that Max could collect the Fanny Kemble letters when he visits Princeton. Mentions Lady Butler. Writes that Max will also reimburse the cost of posting her journals and letters back to England. Reveals her plan to let the house in Manchester and return to Cambridge whilst Max is in America. Reports that she is continuing her attempt to publish her world map. Sends news of Appy Ogilvy, and Henry Whitehead. Describes the schooling of Edward and William. Asks after Margareta. Sends her sympathies about Maynard Keynes.

Details her movements over the previous six years. Plans to have the Fanny Kemble material sent back from America. Mentions the death of Francis Yeats-Brown. Enquires after Miriam Dent.

Explains that they are travelling back to England via Portugal and without Max's consent as he did not reply to her cable. Hopes that Hermann can keep Fanny Kemble's letters for her. Describes her voyage. Asks Hella to write to her c/o Max at St John's College.

Reports that she has moved to a smaller house away from the Knightsbridge Barracks in order to be safer in the case of air raids. Wonders if Lyn will take her children to America and mentions that her Doreen has had invitations to go there. Gives Lyn permission to take Fanny Kemble's letters.