12 Pembroke Gardens, Kensington, W. - Thinks Stanley's father [Moritz Makower] will give his widow Agnes something to live on, but they are 'embittered against each other'; he wants her to return to Switzerland very soon and she needs time to recover. Feels Agnes must bear it for the children: there are four under six years old, with nothing to live on but what Makower gives them. Eleanor would like to see Trevelyan very much. Stanley did not realize he was dying, and his death was peaceful. Hopes that one of Agnes' brother will come, and may put things right. She wants to see Stanley's last book through the press, which would keep her in England till next year; Makower wants her to leave this month. Oswald and Robert went to the funeral; there was no trouble about the religious question; he had a Catholic ceremony and burial and the children will be brought up in their parents' faith. She, her 'four sons and two daughters in law' spent a month in Dieppe over the summer.
12 Pembroke Gardens, Kensington, W. - Wishes she could give a good account of Stanley [Makower]; on a recent visit he seemed much weaker, and she fears the doctors are right and he will not recover. He is still very glad to see friends, and the Sickerts visit in turn. Mrs Makower despairs, as she has from the start, but she stays 'wonderfully calm and cheerful' when with him. Auguste Bréal went to see him on Sunday. Reports in a postscript that Robert has just come back from Chiswick and thinks Stanley a little better.
12 Pembroke Gardens, Kensington, W. - The Sickerts have been very distressed by Stanley [Makower]'s illness; at first there was thought to be no hope but his temperature has gone down and the doctors thought they may have made an error in diagnosis. Robert has paid several brief visits and says that Stanley 'talks quite naturally' and is able to read. His wife despairs, but Eleanor thinks she still believes the first diagnosis. More on Stanley's illness; recommends Trevelyan write to hiss wife if he wants to visit. Oswald and Bessie are well; Oswald soon to have a holiday.
12 Pembroke Gardens, Kensington, W. - Letter of condolence on the death of the Trevelyan's new-born daughter, Susan Caroline; sends love to Elizabeth Trevelyan and says she hopes she will take care of herself, for Trevelyan and Paul. Finds that young mothers often do not look after their eyes properly: Agnes Makower hurt hers when Ursula was born. Oswald [her son] and Bessie have taken a furnished house in Wellington, New Zealand and will not be back before June; now Oswald has an office Bessie was finding hotel life lonely; hopes they have solved 'the servant difficulty'.
Grosvenor House, Chiswick Lane, W. - has 'just taken off a pair of white kid gloves' after reading "Sisyphus" for the third time, this time aloud to [his wife] Agnes; claims to have worn them for each reading, as befitting 'a thing so elegant'. Is still 'too dizzy with the brilliance' of the piece to say anything coherent. Is curious about the 'appropriate sort of music'; imagines it as 'a mixture of Strauss the Waltz King with Strauss the composer of "Also sprach Zarathustra"', but there must be 'nothing gross... even the flattest farcical bits must be lightly covered in a starry enchantment'. Does not know how the musician can 'keep within the bounds of the verse', but expects this has been considered and is 'no good at metres'; in any case a listener can understand the lines 'even when mutilated by an unskilled reader', as Agnes followed them easily. Is afraid he took the first two acts 'too pompously', which was not the fault of the kid gloves as he forgot he was wearing them; took the last act 'more lightly and more colloquially' which he thinks Agnes wanted. Much refreshed by reading "Sisyphus", which came just as he had sent the second third of his "[Richard] Savage: [A Mystery Biography]" to the printer, and was kept at home and off his own work by sciatica. Hopes to get to the [British] Museum for more research tomorrow; supposes Trevelyan will not be in London for some time, but would like to meet, and hear more about the music. Postscript asking for a clarification of a point in the text.