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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.

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

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.

Describes the front sitting room and the kitchen in her new house, shopping for household items at Heal's in London, and the visit of her brother Allan and his two boys, Keith and Alasdair. Asks for more information about Lyn's family. Discusses reading lists. Mentions that she has been staying near Glasgow with her sister Flora.

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"

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".

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.

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

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.

Describes her tour of the Holy Land and her tour party. Agrees with Alison Cairns' opinion of the Holy Land in Lyn's book. Writes that she enjoyed Lyn's visit and expresses a wish to see her again.