Sven Berlin, sculptor, painter and writer, was a flamboyant figure in the post-war St Ives art scene. A romantic, he grew out of kilter with the prevailing modernist scene, and in 1953 left St Ives for the New Forest. These letters record his eventual gradual rapproachment with the art establishement, and deal with the business of publishing and editing, notably of a new edition of his work on the painter Alfred Wallis, and the birth pangs of his autobiography.