Few men have had a wider range of literary friends than David Garnett. Through his parents he met older writers such as Conrad, Hudson. Thomas and Galsworthy. He was an intimate friend of D H Lawrence and also knew T.E.Lawrence. The great figures of Bloomsbury, Forster, Woolf, Strachey and Keynes. He knew George Moore and H G Wells and younger writers such as H E Bates.