Edith's assessment of Ronald Clark: "He seems to be equipped with an overdose of industry and a lamentable underdose—apart from literary abilities—of sympathetic imagination and sensitiveness to human qualities and other such imponderables." She wanted Clark to see BR's memorandum "of the main difficulties that arose in his first three marriages." With regard to the embargo: "I do not think we can now break our promises to" BR that the embargo would be enforced.