"The tone of The Sunday Times serialization was, certainly, disgusting. Clark himself, of course, might have done something about it, but there was nothing whatever that we could do. As to what 'Colette would have thought of all this'—I think that she would have loathed Clark's book and Dora's [?] as seen in the press." Clark was "just plain wrong" and thus "I am forced to look upon all his unearthed facts as dubious." Edith agrees that "the correspondence with Ottoline ranks among the best ever."

"Bertie's estate is suffering the final throes of settlement."