Status Updates From 84, Charing Cross Road

Frank Doel, what are you DOING over there, you are not doing ANYthing, you are just sitting AROUND.

“WHAT KIND OF A BLACK PROTESTANT BIBLE IS THIS?”
Kindly inform the Church of England they have loused up the most beautiful prose ever written, whoever told them to tinker with the Vulgate Latin? They’ll burn for it, you mark my words.

Will you please translate your prices hereafter? I don’t add too well in plain American, I haven’t a prayer of ever mastering bilingual arithmetic.

I am a poor writer with an antiquarian taste in books