333 To Rayner Unwin Merton College

16 March 1972

Dear R.

Everything you do for me fills me with gratitude.

I am now at last since Tuesday, IN but not 'settled' in. The weather (which seems a slice of our normal 'wedding-day weather' come too early) contributes to my comfort. The great bank in the Fellows' Garden looks like the foreground of a pre-Raphaelite picture: blazing green starred like the Milky Way with blue anemones, purple/white/yellow crocuses, and final surprise, clouded-yellow, peacock, and tortoiseshell butterflies flitting about.

I hope in less than a week's time to have ordered my 'flat', except for the last labour — recalling my library from store. I have a faint hope that perhaps you and your wife could soon pick a fine day and visit me.

Excuse scrawl.

Yours ever
J. R. R. T.