Air-raids in London; a trip to the south coast; 'Gabriel' Atkin; an Adrian Boult concert in the Queen's Hall; is writing 'the stuff for Boult's programmes'; [J.B.] Trend very busy at the War Office; the London musical world: 'I expect I am making enemies right and left'; cannot bring himself to begin composing again; is giving a lecture at Haileybury with Gladys Moger on modern French poetry and song; Osbert Sitwell's opinion of Sassoon's revolutionary credentials