- Letter to parents 18 September 1915
“I doubt if I ever worked harder than during the last two weeks; but I’m wonderfully well all the same. The work has been as interesting as it could be. I’ve written three major memoranda, one of which has been circulated to the Cabinet, and about a dozen minor ones.”
- Letter to parents 14 January 1916
“Things drift on, & I shall stay now, I expect, until they begin to torture one of my friends.”
- Letter to Duncan Grant 14 January 1917
“The Treasury depresses me now. I am badly overworked, need a holiday, and am filled with perpetual contempt and detestation of the new Govt. I should like to get away from it all.”
- Letter to Vanessa Bell 16 March 1919
“I’m absolutely absorbed in this extraordinary but miserable game… I am living for weeks together in a state of nervous excitement one would have thought only possible for hours.”
- Letter to Duncan Grant 14 May 1919
“I’ve been utterly worn out, partly by the incessant work and partly by depression at the evil around me. I’ve been as miserable for the last two or three weeks as a fellow could be. The Peace is outrageous and impossible and can bring nothing but misfortune. To judge from the papers, no one in England yet has any conception of the iniquities in it.”
- Letter to Lord John Bradbury 27 May 1919
“I am so sick at what goes on that I am near breaking point and you must be prepared for my resignation by telegram at any moment.”
- Letter to Ottoline Morrell 8 August 1919
“I am absolutely glued to Charleston, writing a book against time and never daring to take a morning off. It is about the economic follies and wickedness of the Peace Treaty…”
