"Letters from London collects these essays for the first time in seventy years. It is an essential record of a crucial period in James's life. His London is an intellectual ferment of politics and poetry and all-night conversations in lodging-house rooms, peopled by radical young Englishmen and liberated young Englishwomen, and students from every reach of the British Empire."--BOOK JACKET.
Cripps met James at a dinner party in London. James was a supporter of Trotsky, who had been expelled from the U.S.S.R. by Stalin. James and some dinner guests formed a group of Trotskyites who met at James's home to discuss world affairs.