Handwritten letter from Robert Aickman to Nellie Flexner, Publicity Manager, Victor Gollancz Limited dated 19 June 1980:

19th June 1980

Dear Nellie,

That's how Melba spelt it, and I hope you do.
I talked entirely about myself. I suppose the particular
occasion provided some excuse, but I suspect not
enough. What is worse is that I still have more to
say. Is there any end to it?

I am seeing my doctor at 4 p.m. on Wednesday
2nd July. Would you come to visit me that evening
at such time as may best suit you, and later
have dinner somewhere with me? It would give
me something to look forward to on a trying

...

afternoon. Alternatively, could you manage
the previous evening, Tuesday 1st?

If you would like to telephone me
I am most usually here before about
11 a.m. Or send me a word on
a postcard.

YES I do hope; because it
was not only the egoism of my
discourse that makes me say I so
much enjoyed talking to you.

Shall tell you how to reach [read?] me,
which often causes difficulty.

Robert

Handwritten postcard from Robert Aickman to Nellie Flexner, Publicity Manager, Victor Gollancz Limited dated 31 July 1980:

I am lunching with Philippa Toomey next Thursday, and have spoken to
the young woman on the Evening Standard (nice enough personally, but the
people who get jobs in journalism!). Thank you very much. Yes, I
can do the radio, if you can get it. I really am sorry to be so
inaccessible, but when people ask me to stay, it is difficult in this
condition to say NO. Am staying this coming weekend with Peter
Scott, but should be back on Tuesday, and home on Wednesday.
Am supposed to be improving steadily, so....

R.

31/7/80

Handwritten postcard from Robert Aickman to Nellie Flexner, Publicity Manager, Victor Gollancz Limited dated 16 August 1980:

The telegram has arrived; together with a card in a subtle shade
of pink to the effect that a telegram is to be expected. I am thinking
of having the whole thing framed. Thank you very much. I am sorry
to be so unresponsive to the psychic phone-in. Thank you for your
letter of the 15th and for the photocopy from The Guardian. I am
most grateful and have noted the details of the event on 11th
September.

R.

16/8/80

Handwritten postcard from Robert Aickman to Nellie Flexner, Publicity Manager, Victor Gollancz Limited dated 1 September 1980:

I am staying with my cousin in Bath on Tuesday and Wednesday
of next week; departing at an early hour, and returning late. The
World Service recording is at 11.0 on Thursday morning, 11th.
I wonder if you could kindly let me know where it is? And
for whom I should ask? Shall be here on Monday morning if
you wish to telephone me. Very good and discerning notice of
INTRUSIONS in "The Eastern Daily News" - a vital
newspaper in East Anglia.

R.

1/9/80

Handwritten postcard from Robert Aickman to Sally Burke, Publicity Department, Victor Gollancz Limited dated 5 September 1980:

Thank you so much for sending me details of the World
Service booking on Thursday. I really and truly had
not received them before!

R.A.

5/9/80