His diaries have interesting bits, but as Paul Fussell remarked, Waugh wrote the diaries at night after drinking, and the letters in the morning sober. I have a

His diaries have interesting bits, but as Paul Fussell remarked, Waugh wrote the diaries at night after drinking, and the letters in the morning sober. I have a volume of his and Nancy Mitford's letters to each other; I must say that her prose would look better on its own.