Letters to a Friend: The Correspondence Between T.H. White & L.J. Potts

by T.H. White, L.J. Potts, Francois Gallix (Editor)

Presents a selection of the correspondence between White and L. J. Potts, the author's mentor, advisor, critic, and devoted friend from White's second year at Cambridge to the end of Potts's life

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography

280 pages, hardback

First published September 1, 1982

About the author

Born in Bombay to English parents, Terence Hanbury White was educated at Cambridge and taught for some time at Stowe before deciding to write full-time. White moved to Ireland in 1939 as a conscientious objector to WWII, and lived out his years there. White is best known for his sequence of Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King, first published together in 1958.

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant. A personal look at White's true inner sentiments. His wit and imagination are in every entry. Highly recommended.

[Dylan · Rating 5 out of 5]

White rocks

[Faith · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wonderful look into White's inner life. Read it after reading The Once and Future King in high school and it cemented White's position as my first serious literary crush.