I Tatti, Settignano, Florence. - Is returning home after about ten days at I Tatti; will return to Florence at the beginning of March. Mary seems much better; her mood is very pleasing to them but not to the nuns, since having been 'a little over-sentimental' after her illness she has now recovered from that too. Hopes she will not remain an invalid. His article on Virginia [Woolf] will appear in the March number of "Pègaso"; Pancrazi thinks he has made the book appear 'very boring', which he did not intend; hopes Trevelyan does not mind the liberties he has taken in translating some of it. Now writing an article about Lytton Strachey and asks for information about his life, upbringing and so on. Is glad about the success of Julian's pictures and that Trevelyan is not worried about the Edinburgh performance [of Donald Tovey's opera "The Bride of Dionysus", with libretto by Trevelyan]. Read [Clifford] Allen's pamphlet ["Labour's Future at Stake"?] with great interest and hopes Allen is well enough to play the part in politics he wishes. Hopes that the French and German elections give better results than expected. Bernson is in a 'quiet but very nice mood, almost resigned'.
Metelliano. - Hopes Trevelyan has returned safely home 'without more internal troubles'; sends on a letter. Pancrazi is urging him to finish the article on [George] Moore and to talk about his novels, which he does not have at all; asks for help in getting hold of "Esther Waters", "A Modern Lover", and "Drama in Muslin", he will pay Trevelyan back through Nicky [Mariano] if it is a question of Birrell not wanting to send out unpaid-for books. Expects "The Lake" and "Aphrodite in Aulis" through Trevelyan's 'kindness', and has already read "Abelard", which he enjoyed very much, and "Memoirs of My Dead Life". Hopes Trevelyan can think out happily 'the meeting of St Francis with Flaminius' ghost'. Asks to be remembered to 'Lord Alan' [Clifford Allen]; the Allens should be persuaded to come to Italy.