`The art of selection has been well practised to concentrate the hundreds of letters and thousands of details into a coherent picture based not on narrative, but on the words of the main characters. And it emerges fresh, compact and as moving as on first reading. The editorial tact which presents the letters almost bare of interruption and explanation, clusters a few compact and lucid notes at the end.'The Scotsman

• Introduction; Note on the text; Calendar of letters and meetings; The letters; Notes

`The art of selection has been well practised to concentrate the hundreds of letters and thousands of details into a coherent picture based not on narrative, but on the words of the main characters. And it emerges fresh, compact and as moving as on first reading. The editorial tact which presents the letters almost bare of interruption and explanation, clusters a few compact and lucid notes at the end.'The Scotsman

• Introduction; Note on the text; Calendar of letters and meetings; The letters; Notes