_The Crown was written in 1915, when the war was already twelve months old, and had gone pretty deep. John Middleton Murry said to me: “Let us do something.”_ _The doing consisted in starting a tiny monthly paper, which Murry called The Signature, and in having weekly meetings somewhere in London--I have now no idea where it was--up a narrow stair-case over a green-grocer’s shop: or a cobbler’s shop. The only thing that made any impression on me was the room over the shop, in some old Dickensey part of London, and the old man downstairs._…
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