“Can you still feel the warmth of fish and chips through a newspaper? That is something only the English experience. It is the most comforting sensation in the whole world…”

(From ‘Letter for Tomorrow‘ by Rosemary Ross Skinner)

John Lentell

21st June, 1970

“I don’t think women are really capable of great tenderness. We despise weakness and so harry it, and one needs great strength and great confidence for tenderness – women are seldom as confident as all that.”

(From ‘Letter for Tomorrow‘ by Rosemary Ross Skinner)

John Lentell

25th May, 1970

“Living with someone when you are in love with someone else seems to me the essence of prostitution – and when he is your husband it is worse, because there is no escape. I lie rigid and try to make my mind a dark blank and remind myself that it is right and proper and that this is what I am here for. And the loneliness goes out of everything and I fell ill….”

(From ‘Letter for Tomorrow‘ by Rosemary Ross Skinner)

John Lentell

22nd April, 1970

“If you pick strawberries in the dark, by touch, it is a wonderful feeling. You can smell them all around you, but they are completely invisible. Then you grope under the plants in the warm straw and your knees sink in and you find them, infinitely soft and scented…”

(From ‘Letter for Tomorrow‘ by Rosemary Ross Skinner)

John Lentell

10th July, 1969