In addition to publishing some twenty books, Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote thousands of letters, mainly to close friends and acquaintances, and these provide a record of almost fifty years of the writer’s life. Her interests are wide-ranging, and we read of such diverse subjects as the pleasures of travel, Proust’s shortcomings as a literary critic, current politics, Rupert Brooke at the Café Royal, an eccentric moorhen, and the Spanish Civil War. Includes index and introduction by William Maxwell.