BR TO GAMEL BRENAN, 15 DEC. 1945
BRACERS 56413. ALS(X). New York Public Library
Proofread by K. Blackwell

Grosvenor Lodge, Babraham Rd,
Cambridge.
Dec. 15, 1945

My dear Gamel

Thank you very much for your letter — I am glad you like my book. Your praise and Gerald’s are very encouraging. Yes, I found the map for my new book, and am busy writing it in the intervals between atomic bombing and starving Germans. I think it should be a book of some importance. My History will appear here probably in the early spring. It contains a few changes, e.g. in the sentence “The library of Monte Cassino is one of the most important in Europe” I have altered is to was. This is typical of our times.

I am very sorry you have been ill and I hope you are better. As for me, I am full of beans.

I wish more than I can say that I could see you but I have found it lately quite impossible to get a room in a hotel so that when I go to London I have to go only for the day and come home as soon as my business is finished. We plan to get a pied-à-terre in London, and if we succeed meetings will be easier. Next autumn we are sending Conrad to Dartington; we have sold this house, with possession next July.

I am glad you think I am at the height of my powers. I hope you are right, as there is so much I want to do. In this desperate world every moment of leisure feels like sin, but one can’t work all the time. Goodbye my dear Gamel. I hope the time for seeing you will come before long. Very much love.

Your
B.