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Four Ashes
Dorridge,
Birmingham.
18-5-[19]31.
Dear Mr. Woolf,
The Swedish publishers of 'Saturday night' are Messrs. Holger Schildts Forlagsaktiebolag, Tunnelgatan 19B, Stockholm.
I was delighted to have an excuse for calling to see you on Friday. Unfortunately I had arranged to meet some of my friends at twelve-thirty, which may excuse my rather uneasy behaviour.
I am interested in stage production, and went to see 'The White Horse Inn', and the Chauve-Souris, the first was horrible, one thinks of a huge badly cooked meal of indigestible food, and shudders for the people, who bolt it down, so swiftly. The only item of it, that I remember with pleasure, was the dancing of the Tyrolese men. After all that, I was in no mood for a second show -
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though I went (with friends, by arrangement). Still I could not, write a critical sentence about the Chauve-Souris, the previous orgy was too much for me.
I am spending Whitsuntide in Scotland, the visit will be an adventure.
Good wishes.
Yours sincerely | John Hampson Simpson. [signature]