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I Tatti, Settignano, Florence. - This is his last day here; will stay with [Hasan] Suhrawardy in Paris for five days, then go home. Hopes Julian has received the set of photographs from [Fratelli] Alinari which he sent last week; Mrs B[erenson] says she will give him one of the [?] Gasetta, which Alinari's does not have. Hears from B[essie] that Julian managed to see some of the pictures at B[urlington?] House. Reminds him to 'find out something about [Richard] Hughes of the "High Wind [in Jamaica]"' and send the invitation to [Umberto] Morra at Cortona. [Alberto] Moravia has been a couple of times, and 'seems to get on with B.B. [Bernard Berenson'. The Waterfields [Lina and Aubrey] have gone to Aulla to install the new stove.

Il Palazzo Villa Alberti, Gerbido Torinese. - A postcard from Morra informs Alberti that Trevelyan has asked after him. Has had trouble with a 'sort of essay on Baudelaire' which has had a long time to finish; will send it when it is printed. Now is thinking of writing a few short stories. Asks if Trevelyan has been working a lot, or travelling, and whether he will soon return to Italy. Spent July in Bavaria, where he 'discovered' Mozart's "Magic Flute" in Munich and was 'absolutely charmed by it'. Asks if there are good translations of Goethe in English, since his German is not good enough to read "Dichtung und Wahrheit" in the original and he does not think French translations are very reliable. Asks whether he should read Lowes Dickinson's interpretation of Faust. Found [Emil?] Ludwig's book 'very disappointing and disagreeable' and will not finish it. Asks what Trevelyan thought of [Richard Hughes'] "A High Wind in Jamaica", published in "Life and Letters", which he rather enjoyed. Has also read recently "Sons and Lovers", his first D. H. Lawrence book, as well as Lawrence's short story "Jimmy and the Desperate Woman", and discusses them at length, and [Arnold Bennett's] "Old Wives Tale". Asks if Trevelyan has head [G. B. Shaw's] "The Apple Cart"; has read Desmond McCarthy's criticism in the "New Statesman" and was sorry to hear an English audience, at this point in time, had applauded Shaw's 'anti-democratic tomfoolery'. Recognises that polemics is Shaw's 'job', but people in Italy take him seriously. Asks for recommendations of new books, and whether Mary Webb is worth reading. In a postscript. asks for a recommendation of a mythological reference book which collects references to the stories of Tantalus, Pelops and others.

Newspaper cuttings with reviews, many sent to Trevelyan by the press cuttings agencies Durrant's and Romeike & Curtice; some duplicates. From: the "Times Literary Supplement"; "Aberdeen Press and Journal" [also reviewing works by Charlotte Eliot and Douglas Ainslie]; "Scotsman" [also reviewing works by C. S. Sherrington, Charlotte Eliot; Douglas Ainslie, Edna Clarke Hall and the Earl of Sandwich]; "Glasgow Herald" [also reviewing Ainslee]; "Morning Post"; "Birmingham Post"; "Yorkshire Post" [also reviewing work by Richard Hughes]; "Observer" [three copies, one with manuscript annotation at the bottom: '...I suppose B. has seen this already? Squire, I think']; "Manchester Guardian"; "Christian Science Monitor" [by Thomas Moult]; "Nation and Athenaeum" [also reviewing works by Squire, Carl Sandburg, and Humbert Wolfe]; "Spectator" [also reviewing works by Arthur Clutton-Brock and Alan E. Mulgan]; "Time and Tide" [by Thomas Moult; repeats the review of Trevelyan's work from the "Christian Science Monitor", adding reviews of work by Amy Lowell, Evarts S. Scudder, Ian Dall, Lady Ashmore and folk songs from Italy translated by Grace Warrack]; "Poetry"; and another review by 'B. S.' with no indication as to source. Also present, a clipping from "Vogue" with a photograph of Trevelyan, and a discussion of the Censor forbidding the production of Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures" from the "New Statesman", 7 Dec 1930, by Desmond MacCarthy, which quotes appreciatively from Trevelyan's "The Deluge".