W. J. Lawrence letter to Walter Starkey, 1938 April 15

              5, Sydenham Rise, London, S. E. 23, Ap 11 15th 193·8.  D a Stark iT,  I was truly so~ to heae of your period 0 BUffertn Wi th increasing years there s .some campensatioD for'fal1in power in a 1B aerenity of spirit, and even I, ~ impatient Irritable creatur , ~a e.'exp rienc d 1t, But, alas, the new pow r 1s unable wholly t o counter c th tailln of the flesh. t remains for us  to grin  b  r  t.   ~  ~  w1~e  ~d  I had a few  su nny,  if bit~lJ cold,  d~8   in the op  t  :Brighton and both  ~r  us  f  e~  ecnafd rably  ett r    for the chan • I had be troubl d before Ith con .astian of the  liT r d nausea, and, for a tim, th ymptoms have dlsappe red. But the lass tud:e remain , and, much as 1t is eedd, I haTeno  r 11sh whatever for work. And the task I dont r lish is ne r well don. But you mq b sur th t ife r Istrikeupona cod  subject for tre tment in your maga iDe, I sh 11 not del~ in 'sending on the reault.  Fr qu t1.7 as I have s n 1t referred to, I hav nev r com C oss Waltar Whlter'.s book. Your enerous otf r 1s v ry t m~ , but, a th . um total ot our 10 friendship 1eav  m con idera 11' your d btor and i tliout any hope of redeeming 2Y  obliA'&tions, I teel squ amlsh about ace pting of th book sa