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(Help! A man waved to me on the lawn y'day: an Ebrew Jew had motored down to see his sister here; told me I'd find her very "bright." She's fifty bien sonnés. Told him I'd feel too shy to talk to anybody for weeks. But I'm lending her books. Help!)

Strictly limited in the amount of work which he was allowed to do, Teixeira in these weeks read voraciously; and his letters of this period contain almost the only critical judgements that I was able to extract from him.

On 25. 5. 20. he writes:

Was Pearsall Smith the inventor of the pedigree tracing the descent of the English from the ten lost tribes of Israel?

Isaac |  | Isaacson |  | Saxon

''What was the other famous book, besides Erewhon, which George Meredith (whom I am beginning to dislike almost as much as Henry James and Pearl Craigie) caused Smith, Elder''