In a 1945 letter to his son Christopher, he wrote: We were supposed to have reached a stage of civilization in which it might still be necessary to execute a criminal, but not to gloat, or to hang his wife and child by him while the orc-crowd hooted.
En 1945 escribiulle ao seu fillo Christopher: Supoñíase que acadáramos unha fase da civilización na que aínda poida ser necesario executar a un criminal, pero non deleitarse con iso, nin colgar á súa muller e fillos ao seu carón mentres a multitude de orcos ouvea.