This collection consists of correspondence from author Geoffrey Wells, also known as Geoffrey West, to Henry Chester Tracy, the American essayist, critic and naturalist. Wells wrote on a variety of subjects in these letters, but often focused on literary matters. The correspondence begins in 1927 with a letter to Tracy as part of Wells's research for his biography of Annie Besant; later letters mention his other writing projects, and Tracy's comments on them, and Wells's responses to many of Tracy's writings. Other topics include the review and promotion of Tracy's books in England, and matters concerning many of their acquaintances in literary and publishing circles, including Middleton Murry, Leonard Woolf, Desmond McCarthy, A. R. Orage, Stanley Unwin, Christopher and F. V. Morley, and Fredric Warburg. He also discussed politics and the impending world war and, occasionally, personal matters.
