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Harnham, Monument Green, Weybridge. - Asks if he has construed a line of Italian [used by D'Annunzio as epigraph to "La Gioconda"] correctly: says it's nonsense', but may do for his syllabus [Extension lectures]. Is reading [Samuel] Butler's essays, having re-read "Erewhon", which he believes is tremendous though he knows Trevelyan disagrees.

Thanks Miss Russell for letting them [Robert and Bessie] see Aubrey [Waterfield]'s postcard. A 'great relief' that the Waterfields are safe, though it looks as if it will be some time before they can come to Britain. Is writing to them at Oporto. Does not think Aubrey had ever been to Spain before; his 'four mornings at the Prado must have been a great event for him'.

Wallington, Cambo, Morpeth. - Bob thought Virginia might like to have 'some additional memories of Helen Fry' [to help with the writing of the biography of Roger Fry], since she perhaps saw her 'from a slightly different angle'. Saw a 'great deal' of Helen when the Frys' children were born and they lived in Dorking, while the Trevelyans were 'two miles away at Westcott'. She was friendly, but they 'never became intimate then', and Bessie 'always felt slightly in awe of her mysterious aloofness'. Their relationship 'suddenly seemed to change when the return of her illness approached', when Helen 'began to talk more intimately about the children', one day visiting Bessie 'to talk about her fear that the doctor and other people would think she was not a good enough mother to the children or wife to Roger'; believes 'this anxiety was a constant trouble'. Saw her 'more rarely' when they moved to London and Guildford. The Frys stayed at the Shiffolds when 'Roger had been disappointed about the post in America [atthe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]'; was clear Helen 'took this morbidly to heart', and seemed to Bessie to think 'she herself had been at fault'. Even when their relationship was 'more easy and confidential', Bessie 'still felt her charm as aloof and mysterious'. Goldie Dickinson used to talk about Helen to Bessie 'years afterward', and though he was 'perhaps, their closest friend' and Helen had been 'very fond of him', he always felt Helen 'so mysterious' and wondered 'what she really thought and felt'.

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - She and Sir George are disappointed that Elizabeth is not coming, but she is right to go to her sister; hopes it will cheer Mien [after the death of her daughter Amanda], and sends her sympathy. Must arrange to meet on Elizabeth's return; she and Sir George go to London on 11 April, and go abroad in five weeks. Is planning an afternoon party for young people, both married and unmarried, and asks if Elizabeth could help with some music. Has had a letter from Madame Grandmont [Bramine Hubrecht], who does not think La Croix suited Elizabeth as well as Ravello; hopes she is well. Wonders where Robert and his friends [on G. E. Moore's reading party?] have gone; G[eorge] and J[anet] are walking in Cornwall until Tuesday; they then come to London and go at once abroad. Aunt Margaret has had influenza; Caroline and Sir George are pretty well.

Birnam Hotel. Thinks Nevile Butler might get a military staff appointment, war against Bulgaria.

Palatino e Foro Romano. Dated 1 x (1913) - Thanks him for the two books sent him at the same time, is extremely pleased, thinks 'The Scapegoat' is very good; is analysing the early Latin stratifications on top of the Palatine hill, under the Atrium or central part of Domitian's palace, and includes a sketch [not reproduced]; hopes they will now come visit, now that the books are done.

Taken on the occasion of an investiture.

Thüringen - tells John about Tristan, Snell's book rejected by publishers, letter from Leonard Woolf.

Nevile Butler visiting Harrow and to dine with Lord Haldane, Agnata Butler "active amongst the Belgians and the invalids", death of Charles Eyre.

[26] Pall Mall. - There is a great philosophical gulf between them: 'I believe in the Mystery of Evil as a Fact, & you do not'; Man is capricious towards lesser beings, but may himself be controlled by a superior will, known to the ancients as Fate and now called Providence; pagan and Christian notions of good and evil; Milnes saved from despair by belief in human progress, despite remnants of savegary; 'I & you are wheels which have our own function in the machine - let us go on regularly, & leave the rest to [God]'.

Re Mrs Woodruffe, née Cooper, of Pontefract.

The Malt House, South Stoke, Reading. - They are glad to have Bob's 'new translations from unfamiliar fragments' [this year's "From the Shiffolds"] which 'sing the praise of simple contentment with the earth. In which one finds more & more satisfaction in these days'. Adds to Bob's list of 'the pleasures of life' in his broadcast ["Simple Pleasures" on BBC radio], 'the brightness of the grass where the sun has melted hoar frost'. Enjoyed that in the garden this morning before the fog came down; then went to 'clear out masses of old paper & pamphlets... to be sold as wastepaper. Joan [Allen] says Bob saw Eileen's letter in the "Times" about the Barratt Brown's gifts from Norway [Eileen Barratt Brown, "Gratitude to England". The Times (London, England), Tuesday, December 24, 1946, Issue 50642, p.5.]; they have just received another parcel and sent some books in return. Hopes they may meet in 1947; they and Joan have promised each other more often than they have done recently.

Asks Nora's opinion on the review of Henry Sidgwick: A Memoir in the Times. Believes that letters, 'delightful as they are have not all the charm of [Henry's] conversation.' Relates that she met a young lawyer called Mr [John?] Buchan some days previously, who commented in relation to the book that 'too much space in proportion had been given to the early letters'. States that 'John [her husband] is intensely interested [in the book]', but agrees with the aforementioned criticism. [Incomplete]

Is in want of a butler

numbered 2(9) other missing from box.

Congratulations on engagement.