[Gilbert Thomas [Gilbert Oliver Thomas], pacifist poet and critc.] Autograph Letter Signed, thanking ‘Calvert’ [William Robinson Calvert] for his review of ‘Calm Weather’ and discussing the critical response to the book.

2pp, 4to. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice. Thirty-nine lines, closely written. Signed ‘Gilbert Thomas’. He begins by thanking him ‘most warmly for your letter and the most kind and generous review to hand this morning. I tremendously appreciate the interest you have shown in Calm Weather, and your review has made me very happy, because I feel that you have really entered into the spirit of the book.’ His wife is ‘specially pleased that you have quoted some favourite sentences of hers - “Time may obscure our dreams,” etc.’ He is sure the review will be ‘a considerable help to the book’, and has ‘already seen good notices in Everyman, Spectator, British Weekly, and (S. A. N. Monkhouse) in Manchester Guardian.’ He has been told that there was also a ‘good one’ in the previous day’s Daily Herald, but there are no reviews he will value more than his. He turns to personal matters, explaining that he has been ‘very much rushed’, and referring to his father’s presence in ‘a Hampstead hospital’. He hopes the Calverts can visit, and is very much looking forward to his novel. Postscript: ‘I am so sorry that I stupidly made a mistake in your initial when autographing the book. My apologies! Have you ever read “Alpha of the Plough’s” essay “On Being Called Thompson”?!’