"No, I no longer possess the 'little oak table made out of the Doomsday oak at Alderley'. I gave it and the larger one to Conrad as they seemed to me to be 'family possessions'."

"But the question as to whether Bertie was 'genuine' made me laugh aloud. I should think that to write his personal letters with an 'eye on posterity' was the last thing that it ever occurred to him to do."