I must have been peculiarly blest; but I seldom, if ever, had the sort of difficulties rubricated here with Pete. He stayed with us many times, and my late wife Valerie [who was not much into folk, in fact] always looked forward to his visits, regarding him as a courteous, charming and exemplary guest, as did I. The same applied as a v.v, if you see what I mean, when I, or once or twice we, stayed over with him, either in Norwich when he was with Anthea, or later in Keighley with Jenny. As to his hypocritical readings of one's writings; one of the nicest things I remember ever being said to me came from him, when he once read something I had written, and said of it, "Oh, I like that; I wish I'd written that."

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