Otherwise Helen ate a good deal, continued to work on her melodramatic novel and, like most members of the bookish upper classes, wrote frequent letters to the Spectator which were never printed. She had more luck with The Times. Something should be done, she insisted, about the decline of the stately homes of England
P. French, Younghusband (1992), 316
A digital form of the sadly lost fashion for copying out memorable passages from texts. I kept losing my actual book.
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Friday, 8 May 2020
There are such things, I would have you remember, Voules, as strong letters to The Times
'Voules,' I was preparing to say, 'enough is enough. This police persecution must stop. It is monstrous and uncalled-for. We are not in Russia, Voules. There are such things, I would have you remember, Voules, as strong letters to The Times.'
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