3 Via Camerata, Florence. - Does not think he can get to the Hague except around eleven at night because of the trains, so she is not bound to come and meet him. Can go straight to his hotel, probably the Angleterre as he cannot remember how to address the people at the Twee Steden, then come to see her early next day. Glad to hear good news of her aunt again. Knows a Miss Crommelin, 'half or whole Dutch', who lives with Isabel Fry; expects she is the same family [as Bessie's friend, see 9/31]; likes her 'well enough, though she is rather flagrantly "New womanly"'. Weather bad; is reading some interesting books; not inclined to work. Berenson has been telling him about old Italian and Russian books; has been reading Tolstoy's "Katia" ["Family Happiness"; hopes their marriage will turn out better; thinks it 'an interesting book, but rather unsatisfactory'.
The Cherry Orchard, Stonor, Henley-on-Thames. - Thanks Trevelyan for his letter; wrote as he advised to Mrs [Penelope] Wheeler and suggested 1 October for the first rehearsal [of Trevelyan's play "Meleager"]. Cannot make any this week, and must then go to Nottingham on 2 October till the end of the week for the National Liberal Federation conference; suggests rehearsing regularly on Wednesday and Thursday after that; she could arrange to stay in London each Wednesday night. Mrs Masefield suggests they should work at Boars Hill for at least three days before the performance, so everyone can 'get accustomed to the little theatre'. Looking forward to meeting Trevelyan again and working 'with... and for' him in "Meleager".
Boar's Hill. - The B[oar's] H[ill] Hotel have booked Trevelyan's rooms. Enjoyed her 'evening' very much; it was very kind of Trevelyan. Her father says 'Mlle Y. G.' [Yvette Guilbert?] 'asked him to write her a play years ago'. Is sorry to have 'run away' from Trevelyan before he had 'done with' her [in a rehearsal for Trevelyan's "Meleager"?]; she was keen to get to a matinée performance. Saw [Seán O'Casey's] "The Silver Tassie"; liked the setting and thought the play 'effective & extremely tragic', but there were 'few lines of great beauty'; her mother says 'the destroying of all the characters by the war would have been justified!'.