It was a real event in my life and my heart to be with you the other day. We do matter to each other, don't we? however much our ways may have diverged.
Source, in full
Letter to Violet Trefusis (3 September 1950), published in The Other Woman : A Life of Violet Trefusis, including previously unpublished correspondence with Vita Sackville-West (1985) edited by Philippe Jullian and John Nova Phillips, p. 235