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THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD. VOLUME FOUR: 1920-1921, edited

by Vincent O'Sullivan and Margaret Scott. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. xix + 372 pages. $80.

The importance of Katherine Mansfield's letters was established long ago by John Middleton Murry:

   If ever there was a writer whose life and work were one and inseparable, it 
   was she. I can think only of Keats to compare with her in this respect, 
   that her letters are essent...