120 From a letter to Allen & Unwin 

[The services of Milein Cosman had now been dispensed with, and Pauline Baynes had been contracted to illustrate Farmer Giles of Ham.]

16 March 1949

Miss Baynes' pictures must have reached Merton on Saturday; but owing to various things I did not see them till yesterday. I merely write to say that I am pleased with them beyond even the expectations aroused by the first examples. They are more than illustrations, they are a collateral theme. I showed them to my friends whose polite comment was that they reduced my text to a commentary on the drawings.