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about them! Heaven knows - and to my
sorrow I've proved - that the combination is a
rare one. And just at this juncture it is that
contribution which will count (Literature, drama,
and things of the intellect in general - it's not for
me to say so: but you won't mind - I see well enough
what your five years, falling just now, may mean
to them; and, living amid the miseries and
fears of Europe, one is happy to see it)

Apropos the last talk you gave me, they
brought up at the Brugères the question of Jacques
Copeau as a possible future 'adjudicator'. If you
come to favour a Frenchman you could, I think,
hardly do better. He began as a critic (was one
of the little group that funded the N.R.F) and
is still a very good one; speaks English fairly
easily; a scholar - has edited Moliere, and all that;
imposes himself. And if ever you wanted him
non-committally sounded, I am in occasional
touch with him in Paris.

Well, thank you again. I shall not