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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2024
[9 December 1920] [ATL]
[Draft]
[Villa Isola Bella, Garavan, Menton]
Sir
re abatement and the questions in that clause
Claimant does not remember
when it was
or
where it was
or
to what office her claim was sent.
I advised her ∴ to leave all unanswered
Was that right?
KM
(Bet I dont get a sniff of that £7. She’s furious with me!!!!!!
[early 1921] [Journal 1954, pp. 236–7]
[Villa Isola Bella, Garavan, Menton]
Your letters sounded insincere to me; I did not believe them. People don’t write such things; they only think they do, or they read them in books. But real life is on quite another plane. If I were not ill, I still would have withdrawn from ‘the world’ because of my hatred of insincerity. It makes me dreadfully uncomfortable and unhappy. I could have answered your letter just in your vein and ‘accepted’ it, you knowing how I accepted it and I knowing that you knew – but it wouldn’t have lasted. It would have been another cul de sac relationship. What good would that have been to either of us?
You see – to me – life and work are two things indivisible. It’s only by being true to life that I can be true to art. And to be true to life is to be good, sincere, simple, honest. I think other people have given you a wrong idea of me, perhaps. I only like to love my friends. I have no time for anything less ‘precious’. Friendship is an adventure; but do we agree about the meaning of the word ‘adventure’? That’s so important! That’s where I feel we would quarrel. If you came on to our boat should we have understood one another?
You must not think I am ‘prejudiced’ or unfair. I am not. I still wish it were possible; but I cannot, and I won’t pretend. Let us really and truly know where we are first. Let us be open with each other and not concealing anything.
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