KATHERINE MANSFIELD'S LETTERS TO JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY, 1913-1922 (701 pp.) -Edited by John Mldd/eton Murry-Knopf ($6.50).
Soon after Katherine Mansfield met John Middleton Murry, she said: "Why not take a room in my flat?" Murry did. It was 1912; he was a bright, broke young man who had just traded Oxford japes for London journalism, and was bent on pedaling away from his lower-middle-class origins as fast as the bicycle of English letters would carry him. Katherine was pedaling too-from her native New Zealand and an unhappy marriage. She had written her first short...
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