Complete Poetical Works of Edward Thomas by Edward Thomas

Author:Edward Thomas [Thomas, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Published: 2013-03-13T05:00:00+00:00

P.S. My aunt is not here yet.

Index of Letters

To Helen

Lincoln College

Oxford

11 May’99

My dearest Friend,

I can do little more than say I am well and more cheerful than before, and then answer what requires to be answered in your letter.

You remember you said that on no account must my people know: well, they would know, if yours knew; so that before attempting to get the £150, it must be certain that you can do it without the knowledge of Mrs. Noble. I hope that is clear. Have you ever thought of asking for a part — if only £5 or £10 — just before leaving home? It would help, and I should think an excuse would be simple.

As to leaving home, things have turned out luckily, but I suppose it is still uncertain what you can do when you leave the Logans in July? You say you will be among kind friends at the Logans — have you any reason for expecting they will help you? Is Mr. Potbury rich?

Now as to my coming to town. Of course the chief object would be what you say, and I suppose the money can be got somehow. You must let me know when you go to the Logans; then ask Mrs. Logan — if you think she has room etc. — whether she can put me up for a night, and on what day; the day must be a Tuesday, or Thursday a week after you write, so as to give me time to ask leave at College. I think I shall cycle, for we really can’t afford fares. Would there be any reason against our sleeping together at the Logans’? The ceremony — or whatever you call it will take place on the morning after I arrive. Why is the fee so much as £2? Will it be by special licence, and can Mrs. Logan be witness? I don’t know from whom we can borrow £2.

You ask me if I know anyone who might help us in the point of money. Well, I have not told Haynes anything yet; in fact I haven’t seen him since the Wednesday night before you came. But when I had told J. H. Morgan, and we were talking about finances, he said Haynes might be ready to help, as he had already offered Morgan one or two hundred pound to help him at Oxford. I shall tell Haynes everything sooner or later; but money help from him is very uncertain.

You ask if I too feel any joy at the thought of a child. I confess I have felt it considerably, but I do not know if it is a decent joy.

I am managing to work fairly well, and am writing just a little at ‘The Caryatids’. The Speaker hasn’t paid me yet, nor said anything about my article which they are considering. It is hard; Davies is earning far more than I at work, not his best and which even he despises, and his powers are inferior to mine.

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