Netherhall Gardens,
Hampstead, N.W.
December 17th.
Dear Sir,
Many thanks for your letter and the copy of "The Song of Songs."
I read the book carefully several months ago. I consider it to be a most wonderful book, and should deeply regret to see the work of so great a master as Sudermann suppressed in England. It is an absorbing psychological and physical study; and I see nothing obscene in its frank presentment of a woman's life, given over, it is true, to passion, and yet with a thread of finer aspiration clearly and continuously to be traced throughout the course of her career.
I am,
Yours very truly,
Beatrice Harraden.
17, Stratton Street, W.