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Written from Austria. Thanks Leonard and Virginia for their good wishes and present. Describes her holiday with Max.

Mentions that she and Max are making their wills. Asks Leonard to be her literary executor and look after her journal. Thinks it impossible to let Max or Yda see it even after her death, but believes that it might be a document of "psychological interest" and therefore does not want it destroyed.

Sends her Princeton address. Describes the place they are staying in with friends in New York. Encourages the Woolfs to visit America. Mentions the "wild unspoilt country". Refers to Edward's schooling in a Princeton nursery and discusses the impact it will have on their plans to move. Hopes to start an American-style nursery school when she returns to Cross Farm. Mentions that she has been working at the Princeton University Library and her book on Fanny Kemble is going ahead well because of the material to which she has had access. Discusses the pros and cons of having books put on film. Hopes to make a research visit to Georgia to see Fanny's husband's plantations. Complains about not meeting enough Americans. Describes shopping in America.

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]".

Remarks that she does not get much time to write. Mentions an operation on her uterus. Refers to her correspondence with Leonard in 1932 about fuchias and life. Describes the antics of her son William. Mentions the collapse of Yda's business. Asks after Virginia and Leonard and their garden at Rodmell.

Reports that she finally got Leonard's letter of 1941, and that she is back at Cross Farm. Mentions that Max is in the Foreign Office and they have the wife and boy of an Oxford Mathematician staying with them. Misses the New York schools for William and Edward. Sends news that Yda has a two year old son, but her husband was killed in Holland.

Thanks Leonard for advice on land tax at Cross Farm. Covers her search for live-in help, her manuscript, her choice of reading (George Eliot, Jane Austen, Tolstoy), Leonard's letter in the Observer, "Venture to the Interior", A. A. Jack's "Young Hamlet", the deaths of Hubert Henderson and Lyn's father, her mother's health, Edward's study for scholarship at Cambridge, the musical exploits of Max, William and Edward.

Thanks Leonard for sending her back issues of the Monologue. Affirms her views on Patrick Blackett expressed in a Monologue of 1945 and expresses bitterness about his part in persuading her to agree to Max moving to Manchester. Intends to call at Monk's House one day.

Sends Leonard her book. Explains that she did not want it to be published by the Hogarth Press for two reasons. Firstly that she blames the minimal profits from "Ten Letter Writers" for resigning her to spending "years drudging in the kitchen", whilst "So Much Love, So Little Money" published by Faber has made enough money to allow her to continue writing . Adds that Faber are thinking of reprinting "Ten Letter Writers". Secondly, recalls an anti-Christian put down of Leonard's to Clive Bell, and believes that he would not approve of the feeling she expresses in her book.

Objects to the tone of Leonard's last letter. Expands on her anticipation of Leonard's reaction to "So Much Love, So Little Money". Points out that thanks to Leonard and Virginia she was not an unknown writer in 1932, so that cannot account for the disparity in sales of her two books. Draws attention to disparity between praise and profits in both cases. Hopes that they can mend their differences. Postscript criticises Van der Post and Mrs Lindberg as "bogus".