WHITE, T.H. A 6pp. a.l.s., dated 3, Connaught Square, Alderney, C.I., 18.10.57, to John Arlott, expressing enthusiasm for his V.H.F. radiogram, frustration with "this Jersey airline thing," and, less flippantly, his regret that Arlott should have read the Arthurian books before their integration in a single work. "They are full of imperfections now ironed out in the definitive edition. Queen Morgause, originally my own mother, has been spared her sarcasm, and I got to be fonder of Guenevere, and Madame Mim is out altogether. The sickly sentiment of twenty years ago has been improved on. I don't know when the last book comes out, some time in the spring they say, but publishers are never up to their promises. When you do read it, you will be quite adrift, as you will be tacking it on to the three original books instead of the new versions. I think I will have to mark the new chapters for you -- they are legion, and the whole thing is said to run to 700 pages. I don't suppose anybody will ever plod through it." He writes an affectionate paragraph about "Jimmy," Arlott's son. Feeling the want of other things to talk about, he comments on the absence of porpoises and fish, gives the opinions of Wilson, a local man, on fishing matters, then refers briefly to Rooney, Percy Colinette, and even "the mice" which "have got into my kitchen. I suppose they add a little life to the grave." In conclusion, he writes: "I enclose my polite attack on Winston, in case you may approve of it. He will probably reverse the tables by dying just when it comes out."The Candle in the Wind, the fourth book if The Once and Future King (1958) had not been published separately, unlike the three books which preceded it. The previous year White had reviewed the first volume of Churchill's History of the English Speaking Peoples for the T.L.S., a task which, in his biographer's words, "set the problem of how to be civil about a second-rate book by a great man," and the reference to Churchill here may be to a subsequent literary review.

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WHITE, T.H. A 6pp. a.l.s., dated 3, Connaught Square, Alderney, C.I., 18.10.57, to John Arlott, expressing enthusiasm for his V.H.F. radiogram, frustration with "this Jersey airline thing," and, less flippantly, his regret that Arlott should have read the Arthurian books before their integration in a single work. "They are full of imperfections now ironed out in the definitive edition. Queen Morgause, originally my own mother, has been spared her sarcasm, and I got to be fonder of Guenevere, and Madame Mim is out altogether. The sickly sentiment of twenty years ago has been improved on. I don't know when the last book comes out, some time in the spring they say, but publishers are never up to their promises. When you do read it, you will be quite adrift, as you will be tacking it on to the three original books instead of the new versions. I think I will have to mark the new chapters for you -- they are legion, and the whole thing is said to run to 700 pages. I don't suppose anybody will ever plod through it." He writes an affectionate paragraph about "Jimmy," Arlott's son. Feeling the want of other things to talk about, he comments on the absence of porpoises and fish, gives the opinions of Wilson, a local man, on fishing matters, then refers briefly to Rooney, Percy Colinette, and even "the mice" which "have got into my kitchen. I suppose they add a little life to the grave." In conclusion, he writes: "I enclose my polite attack on Winston, in case you may approve of it. He will probably reverse the tables by dying just when it comes out." The Candle in the Wind, the fourth book if The Once and Future King (1958) had not been published separately, unlike the three books which preceded it. The previous year White had reviewed the first volume of Churchill's History of the English Speaking Peoples for the T.L.S., a task which, in his biographer's words, "set the problem of how to be civil about a second-rate book by a great man," and the reference to Churchill here may be to a subsequent literary review.

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WHITE, T.H. A 6pp. a.l.s., dated 3, Connaught Square, Alderney, C.I., 18.10.57, to John Arlott, expressing enthusiasm for his V.H.F. radiogram, frustration with "this Jersey airline thing," and, less flippantly, his regret that Arlott should have read the Arthurian books before their integration in a single work. "They are full of imperfections now ironed out in the definitive edition. Queen Morgause, originally my own mother, has been spared her sarcasm, and I got to be fonder of Guenevere, and Madame Mim is out altogether. The sickly sentiment of twenty years ago has been improved on. I don't know when the last book comes out, some time in the spring they say, but publishers are never up to their promises. When you do read it, you will be quite adrift, as you will be tacking it on to the three original books instead of the new versions. I think I will have to mark the new chapters for you -- they are legion, and the whole thing is said to run to 700 pages. I don't suppose anybody will ever plod through it." He writes an affectionate paragraph about "Jimmy," Arlott's son. Feeling the want of other things to talk about, he comments on the absence of porpoises and fish, gives the opinions of Wilson, a local man, on fishing matters, then refers briefly to Rooney, Percy Colinette, and even "the mice" which "have got into my kitchen. I suppose they add a little life to the grave." In conclusion, he writes: "I enclose my polite attack on Winston, in case you may approve of it. He will probably reverse the tables by dying just when it comes out."

The Candle in the Wind, the fourth book if The Once and Future King (1958) had not been published separately, unlike the three books which preceded it. The previous year White had reviewed the first volume of Churchill's History of the English Speaking Peoples for the T.L.S., a task which, in his biographer's words, "set the problem of how to be civil about a second-rate book by a great man," and the reference to Churchill here may be to a subsequent literary review.

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