Pièce 7 - Letter from Arnold Dolmetsch to Elizabeth Trevelyan

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2 Seymour Place, W. - Very kind of her to send the cheque for four pounds for the clavichord and to trouble to recover the money. Will be glad to come to give her the tuning lesson [for the clavichord] later. Has just returned from Zürich, where he has been granted a divorce from his wife; it 'was a joint petition... Swiss laws are wise enough to separate people who cannot live together in peace'. The 'circumstances which have brought this about', added to his 'former troubles [bankruptcy] have been hard to bear'; glad it is all over. Has 'secured a very clever harpsichord player... and good singer' who is now ready to take part in his concerts [Kathleen Salmon]; is arranging concerts at Clifford's Inn for November.