"Quakers are the best folk on earth; only (as BR used to say) he 'suffered from their lack of beauty in their houses'."

Colette has a strong-box full of BR's letters, "... and when I let my mind wander it always composes the image of some tiny room somewhere in Sweden and me making into tidy type those letters ready for publication as they'll have to be some day when we're both dead. They're nearly all as good as the ones and sayings in the Autobiography. He wrote very nearly every day for about three or four years." (S. Turcon note)