1944 typed letter to a college student at Cambridge, declining to speak to the Cambridge Literary Club
Dated Novemberr 23, 1944 on Peace News letterhead, Murry writes: Dear Miss Cope, I am sorry, but in these days it is a physical impossibility for me to make a journey to Cambridge without an inordinate expenditure of time. In more spacious days, with plenty of petrol, it was comparatively easy for me to pick up a train at Thetford, which is 10 miles away. I can't do it now. That makes it an immensely round-about journey, for which at the moment I have neither the time nor energy. Yours sincerely, J. Middleton Murray. .... Very good, some light wrinkling and creasing. Both this letter and T. S. Eliot's which we have cataloged recently both employ not just the 'Oxford two spaces' after periods but seem to add a third space. We suggest this to be the subject of someone's dissertation: 'The Development of the "Oxford Three-Space" Among English Literary Personages of the 1930s and 1940s.'. Very Good. Item #H4063
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