The Battle House Mobile, Ala. June 10, 1918. Masefield thanks Bull for her kind letter; defers confirmation of plan to meet mid-June, wants to leave open until he reaches N.Y.; apologizes for uncertain plans; notes possibility of returning to France ‘next week’; amends signature to "John”, instead of “J. Masefield”.

HARVARD CLUB 27 WEST 44th STREET. June 16. 1918. Expecting to give a speech the at the Harvard Club the following day, Masefield cancels visit to Bull; apologizes for the cancellation and short notice; expresses disappointment; declares he shall know tomorrow whether he returns to France ‘in a few days’.

HARVARD CLUB 27 WEST 44th STREET 17.VI.1918. Masefield forwards a letter from The Daily News in London noting that he knew the editor there ‘would jump at the chance’ to publish a second poem by Dorothy Bull.

The St Anthony. SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 2nd. VII. 1918. Masefield replies to ‘Miss Bull’ from hot Texas, 12 days after her latest letter to him. Masefield refers to a gown and hood in an image unavailable in this collection; conditionally accepts Bull’s request to speak for her on the 30th if he finds passage on a ship to England the following week.

HARVARD CLUB 27 WEST 44th STREET. [UNDATED, probably mid-July, 1918]. So glad that Bull visited him with an individual also known to him, Masefield accepts Bull's invitation to speak for the local war charities on July 30 or 31 and emphasizes that not even his ‘“Mission” will upset the commitment.

HARVARD CLUB 27 WEST 44th STREET. July 31. 1918. Masefield thanks Bull, and her aunts for their hospitality the preceding day; encourages Bull to write all she can because she has an original talent and ought to be using it; insists Bull not reduce life to something unimportant by questioning whether she is ‘justified’ in doing so.

HARVARD CLUB 27 WEST 44th STREET. Aug 1. [1918]. Masefield offers Bull further feedback on topic of whether she is justified in trying to write; notes that discouragement is part of the artist’s ‘game’; cites Browning, Blake; affirms Bull’s ‘original talent’ as unlike anybody or anything else; recognizes that Bull’s writing gives him ‘and other people a lot of pleasure’; insists Bull remain bold and resolute and wishes her luck ‘always’.

HARVARD CLUB 27 WEST 44th STREET. Aug 3. [1918]. Masefield thanks Bull for her article, congratulates her, and notes the nice prose; reports booking passage on the 5th aboard a ship to England he last embarked during ‘the great days of Gallipoli’; sends thanks to Bull’s brother for his message, to her aunts for their kindness; reaffirms his friendship with Bull; remains unaccustomed to writing Litchfield, Conn instead of Litchfield, Staffs.

Boar’s Hill, Oxford Jan 3. Masefield replies at length to Bull’s question about whether people skate much in England; offers to send Bull battered, 18th century books published when the patron-bookseller system prevailed and readers read as they have ‘never since done’; closes on subject of ‘the good author’ with ‘Nil desperandum’ reference to Teucer in Horace’s Odes.

Boar’s Hill, Oxford. March 9. 1919. Masefield thanks Bull for letter and new poems which are “very good” technically but fail to focus on subjects Bull ‘really’ knows; proposes that she write ‘from the heart with all the weight of her experience’, suggests she give her work ‘more interest and power’ by dramatizing conflicts between imagined characters who manifest her various instincts from ‘I dare not’ to ‘I would’.