There is something reason & common-sense that keeps them outside

TCD MS 11274/67 folio 2 verso

TCD MS 11274/67 folio 2 verso

[ March 1917]

modern languages to the English for its literature and poetry. Tell the man in Hodges & Figgis not to be an Ass. I got a UDC book from Olive last night. You know the Ponsonby-Trevelyn-Pethwick Laurence people. It had very good articles in it. Their whole energies are bent towards stopping the War. Yet they have never anything new to say. Perhaps that is natural. Their views are that of reason and common-sense there is something reason & common-sense I suppose that keeps them outside the sympathies of the people.
Goodbye dearie now
Yours very lovingly
Pat