Wharton, Edith, 1936 Sept. 21

Describes her interaction with Cyril Clemens, a would-be biographer of A.E. Housman: "Our (one-sided_ correspondence was enough to show me that he was hardly the person for the projeced task, + I was horrified to see, in his letter to the Times, that he hinted at the approval of the family. But then, in his letter to me, he described your brother ("the last time I was with him at Cambridge" as surrounded by my works, + treating his visitor to an eloquent discourse on my genius!! All this was so nauseating that I felt I must intervene..." Wharton concludes: "May I venture ... to tell you of the lasting delight you have given me ... in writing the scene of Mr. Martin Tupper's visit to Buckingham Palace? It is a masterpiece." One of several such letters about Clemens; see H.F. Stewart and Erich Walter as well.