You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR<br />
To Miss Seaton (March 8, 1918).<br />
" I do not feel that I have much to say, but I<br />
do know that unless I write now it will be a long<br />
time before you hear from me again, without<br />
something exceptional happens. It is not very<br />
cold now, but I dread the wet weather, which is<br />
keeping off while we are out, and, I fear, saving<br />
itself up for us. We will become like mummies<br />
—look warm and lifelike, but a touch and we<br />
crumble to pieces. Did I send you a little poem,<br />
'<br />
The Burning of the Temple '? I thought it was<br />
poor, or rather, difficult in expression, but G.<br />
Bottomley thinks it fine. Was it clear to you ?<br />
If I am lucky, and come off undamaged, I mean to<br />
put all my innermost experiences into the 'Unicorn.'<br />
1 I want it to symbolize the war and all the<br />
devastating forces let loose <strong>by</strong> an ambitious and<br />
unscrupulous will. Last summer I wrote pieces<br />
for it and had the whole of it planned out, but<br />
since then I've had no chance of working on it<br />
and it may have gone quite out of my mind."<br />
To Edward Marsh (dated March 28, 1918).<br />
" I think I wrote you I was about to go up the<br />
line again after our little rest. We are now in<br />
49 d