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Ciro's Club, Leicester Square, London, W.C. [Headed Y.M.C.A. - H.M. Forces on Active Service - notepaper].- She will see from the enclosure [no longer present] that he has '"disarranged" the Bach Pastorale & performed it. It sounded very well for two violins, viola & organ', and was 'much appreciated' by the troops who 'completely filled the building'. Sends 'regards & remembrances' to Mr Trevelyan.

Y.M.C.A. postcard, no address given. - Has posted the Bach volume back to her today, and thanks her for the loan; the 'soldier boys have loved the pastorale' [see also 18/11] which he has played for them four times. They 'do not entirely lack discrimination, as certain purveyors of cheap and nasty music (?) [sic]' would claim. Sends regards to the Trevelyans and to [Donald] Tovey.

The Shiffolds. - The weather is bad again. Bessie and Julian are well. Miss Busch is on a visit here for about a fortnight. Last week Mrs Mann and Mr [John?] Foulds were here 'planning the production of... The Pearl Tree'; thinks it 'may come to something someday, though hardly this year'. [Goldsworthy Lowes] Dickinson also came for three or four days. Robert's play [The Pterodamozels] was 'well-reviewed by Clutton Brock' in the Times, also in the Nation, and 'seems to be selling a bit'.

Miss Colley [the new governess] 'continues quite satisfactory'; still, thinks it will be a 'good thing' when Julian goes to school. They go north around the 13th Sept. They are currently reading Conrad's Victory aloud; 'a good story, but hardly one of his best'. Will write to his father at the end of the week.

2 St Margaret's Road [on University of Edinburgh headed notepaper]. - Is sorry not to have written sooner: meant to do so when [Trevelyan's] "Pterodamozels" came but this has taken longer than he expected. The move to the Toveys' new house happened just when Trevelyan's letter about [John] Foulds arrived; Grettie had a collapse due to the strain of the move and is only now recovering. Would be jolly if Trevelyan came to Edinburgh in October. Trevelyan may show Foulds anything of Ariadne ["The Bride of Dionysus"] which may interest him, as long as he first see the parts which are in a final state - 'the big sheets or Raabe's copy'.

Is interested in what he has seen of Foulds' work, though has seen nothing recent: sent an early set of variations on to Röntgen, who was very pleased; Trevelyan should encourage Foulds to send something to the Carnegie people, as their first year's list is very successful, with Vaughan Williams, Bantock, Stanford and Frank Bridges and 'three totally unknown names with them' [Boughton, Howells and ?]: calls it, short of founding orchestras, 'much the best thing that has yet been done for English music.' Grettie liked [Trevelyan's] "Pearl Tree" but since she is still recovering he has not introduced her to the "Pterodamozels" yet: [Austen's] "Emma" 'represents the limit of our joint capacity for satire'. Has discovered Chapman's translation of Homer, and also that with help he can read Homer himself.