DH Lawrence in letters written from Porthcothan House which he rented in 1915-16
“We arrived here tonight – a fine large house with clear large rooms and such lovely silence, with a little wind and a faint sound of the sea; such peace I could cry.”
“The house is a big low grey well-to-do farm place with all the windows looking over a round of grass, between the stone gate pillars down a little tamarisky lane at a cove of the sea where the waves are always coming in past jutty black rocks. It is a cove like Tristan sailed into, from Lyoness – just the same. It belongs to 2000 years back.”
“We have got a big, delightful old house, low and long, looking down at a cove of the sea. It is delightful. I love this Cornwall and the primeval coast.”
“I am so happy to be here. The house is an old farm place with large silent rooms full of peace. I love it. It looks over the brow of the land at the sea, which is quite near and sounds out night and day through the restless wind.”
