The letters discuss social and literary matters. Also includes a printed letter from James to Elton, and dozens of other subscribers to a letter sent to James on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Elton was Joy Scovell's father-in-law, the father of her husband, Charles Sutherland Elton.
Includes: letter from Joan Barton, of Oriel College Oxford letters from, and poems by, Charles Brasch correspondence with Dick Davis, of Ohio State University letters from Doubleday, Doran and Company, New York correspondence with Oliver Elton (Scovell's father-in-law). Also includes a letter f...
Contains reviews of Shadows of Chrysanthemums (1944), Midsummer Meadow (1947), The Space Between (1982), and Selected Poems (1991). Also contains reviews (1931-1932) by Scovell of works by, or about, Robert Bridges and Virginia Woolf.