Patricia writes from the Commander Hotel, Cambridge, Mass.

She views Barnes as a "benevolent bully" but she will no longer "return to the attack" regarding Conrad or where they will live. She replies on only one point. "You see Bertie married me because he found that I could help him with his work, and I can't stop now. In fact I was originally responsible for the idea behind the subject of the lectures: a history of ideas relating them to the social background of their period, and I must confess that I have already done a good deal of research and collected a lot of notes that Bertie was intending to use."