Woollcott was a close family friend and in fact, I think he was really quite fond of my mother. And at the same time though, I don't think he was really a very passionate person, but he used to joke about thinking of ways of murdering my father, so he could walk off with my mother. He also was really a very amusing man, and a good stylist, as far as prose went.

And he used to - he lived near us at one point - and he used to, once a week, we went down, and he read these dog stories, one of them was dog, but mostly these animal stories, and people stories, which were very sentimental. And he read them in a wonderful voice and it was fun.

And he was always… I think I made him nervous, which always bothered me because I liked him. And so we had this sort of strange relationship. But then, I had a birthday and he sent me a pair of cufflinks which were Roy Chapman Andrews' discovery in the Gobi Desert. And they were the first dinosaur eggs that had ever been discovered and he or Roy Chapman Andrews, I don't remember which, set them into cufflinks, and they weren't pretty, but they were really interesting.