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Harmsworth (Desmond) Autograph

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10pp. & envelope, 8vo, Hyde Park Gardens, London, 3rd January 1931, It seems as if all my letters are destined to begin with records of late nights and of Nancy Cunard. She sent me to an invitation to see a surrealist film which she sponsored last evening at the Gaumont Co.'s private theatre. I was grateful, for the film inspired me, though perhaps it wasn't as good as it might be. Successful as a presentation of the unconscious, of dream consciousness. Charming but not easy to describe. That was over fairly early, but some hours in the diningroom afterward, with discussions of satyromania, exhibitionism, narcissism and the like, ending inevitably with Joyce and the censorship. I hope I did not do wrong in inscribing Desmonds Poems to Min and Charlie when I tried to put Pop my pen simply refused to write. I want to write some poems. Some of my articles, by the way, have misfired. The one to the Times came back, to my annoyance, and I have sent it on to the Evening News. It is about Berkeley Square, nine houses of which, on the Gunter's side (the East side) are to be torn down to make place for another vast and useless hotel", folds.

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