"My Darling The Bremen arrived at noon yesterday after a very good voyage. On the boat they took a talkie [film with sound] of me, and the afternoon was spent seeing journalists and Feakins."

"The Nortons are kind; I have seen no other friends yet except Aannestad. They didn't much like my Autobiography."

"I am depressed about the world and also about our private income. Unless things revive in America we shall be very hard up."