Elizabeth David in Telegraph.co.uk And in 1947, marooned by a blizzard in a hotel in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, Elizabeth David began to describe the food she so missed: "Even to write words like apricot, olives and butter, rice and lemons, oil and almonds produced assuagement."
Ottoline Morrell in guardian.co.uk Ottoline Morrell described Jessie as "a good and reposeful mattress for this hypersensitive, nerve-wracked man, who did not ask from his wife high intelligence, but only an assuagement of life's vibrations".