CONTENTS
3 ‘Am greatly disappointed in the boy and have unpleasant misgivings regarding his future’
4 ‘They must have a very high opinion of him to consider him dangerous’
7 ‘No likelihood of complications’
9 ‘Doubts that he is a shit are still graver’
10 First essays and the futility of pot-boiling
13 ‘I have a sort of idea he’s a genius’
18 ‘My dear, safe as a church’
19 ‘You need sympathy, sympathy, sympathy’
20 ‘Why not paint a picture instead?’
21 ‘I’m thirty-seven till I pass the word round!’
25 ‘People are only friends in so much that they are of use to you’
26 ‘Concentrate on one book at a time’
27 ‘Your output has become prolific’
28 Peter London and Miss Mayfair 1924
31 ‘A roaming wild oat come to roost’
32 ‘Definitely something abnormal about her’
33 The princess and the juggler
34 ‘Anything but a Jubilee year’
37 ‘I want to escape from this economic inferno’
38 ‘How would I live out here without portraits to paint?’
40 ‘Attendance upon the great ones of this bloody earth!’
41 ‘Some modest perch out of the storm’
42 ‘He is a well-known British artist – not a knight’
43 ‘We consider the artist not a very responsible person’
44 ‘I fear that we have simply been swindled’
47 ‘In the absence of proof of malice’
48 ‘A great artist’s dental plate’
49 ‘Nothing is visible, there is no pain, no disagreeable sensations’
50 ‘The Tapewriter’ and ‘The Biro’
52 ‘Does he not mean Self-Condemned?’