Collection of mainly typed letters signed by authors including Agatha Christie ("...I do not write biographies, they are not my métier. I prefer fiction..."), P.G. Wodehouse ("...I put the Drones Club in Dover Street in Leave It To Psmith, and I can't back out from that..."), Ian Fleming (a puzzled letter after receiving Edmund Hillary's No Latitude for Error for review), Graham Greene ("...my commitments are too heavy for me to undertake any reviewing much as I enjoyed 'Red Rumba'..."), Leonard Woolf ("...I think T.S. Eliot was slightly anti-semitic in the sort of vague way which is not uncommon..."), Kingsley Amis ("...If it doesn't sound too pompous, I think of all my novels as serio-comedies..."), David Garnett ("...my book Aspects of Love is almost a play in certain points..."), Anthony Powell (two letters, the first on Afternoon Men and his forays into playwriting, the second written after finishing A Dance to the Music of Time with its concluding quotation from the Anatomy of Melancholy: "I am delighted to have made a Burton convert, even if at present a faltering one"), Christopher Isherwood, Rebecca West ("...I did write a book called 'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon'..."), Anthony Burgess ("...I do enjoy what comes between the lines of dialogue, and that I suppose makes me a novelist..."), Stephen Spender, Edmund Blunden, L.P. Hartley ("...I have mostly written novels, but never felt the urge to write a play, Why I don't know since I enjoy writing dialogue..."), J.L. Carr ("...a film of A Month in the Country will be shown on TV next Autumn..."), John le Carré, John Betjeman, Angus Wilson ("...My first story was written... in one day in a kind of fever-heat..."), Alan Bennett, A.S. Byatt, Margaret Drabble (on Henry James and the epistolary novel), Michael Holroyd (on a mix-up over Gerhardie, G.E. Moore and his epigraph from Bishop Butler), Michael Frayn (on Three Sisters "one of the saddest and best plays in he world"), A.N. Wilson ("...I knew H. James wasn't Kipling's best man – how did I come to write it?!..."), Malcolm Bradbury, Iris Murdoch, V.S. Pritchett, Barbara Cartland, Richard Church, Frederick Raphael, Alan Ross, Simon Raven, Frank Swinnerton, C.P. Snow ("...I knew H.G. Wells pretty well..."), and others