1935-10-26

21 Grove Terrace,
Teddington,
Middlesex,
England.
26.10.35.

Dear Bjerke-Petersen,

I am so sorry to have been so long sending you the enclosed article; I hope it will not reach you too late for inclusion in the next number of [ord overstreget] Konkretion [understreget]. - As Read, Grigson and Porteus have probably already written for you about all the artists worth writing about, I am sending you a study of the general intellectual atmosphere of contemporary England, an adaptation of part of a book I am at present engaged in writing, "The Putrefaction of Reality." I hope this will not be too long for you.

Very many thanks for sending the first two numbers of your paper. May I congratulate you on it? Although I unfortunately cannot read Danish, it seems to be a most admirable review, and should have far-reaching effects on intellectual life in Denmark, by internationalising the most vital ideas of our time.

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I should like to say how much I enjoyed reading your most moving declaration in the recent number of "Cahiers d'Art".

With all best wishes for the success of Konkretion [understreget].

Yours sincerely,

David Gascoyne.

P.S. It may perhaps interest you to know that my book called "A Short Survey of Surrealism" is to be published on November the 11th next.