Pièce 2 - Letter from Caroline Trevelyan to Elizabeth Trevelyan

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Glad that Elizabeth is happy at Ravello, but sorry that she is anxious about her cousin Marie [Hubrecht]'s health; Taormina is an excellent place for her to be so with luck she will be better by the time they arrive. Sir George has kept well; they have seen a few neighbours and taken regular walks 'in muddy roads & fields'. Is forwarding Robert's letter to George, who is now settled at Cambridge again; he plans to spend more time in London after Easter and is taking rooms with Hilton Young. He will lecture at Cambridge, but 'give up the teaching, which he does not think he does very well' and stops him getting on with his book; they think this is a good plan. The new review ["The Independent Review"] is under way; hopes it will be useful. Asks when they will see the play [Robert's "Cecilia Gonzaga"?] and how his new work is getting on. The 'old gentlemen' [staying in Elizabeth's hotel] must be funny; hopes 'the expedition to Pompeii had no evil results'; expect there will be more visitors there by now. Asks when they go on to Sicily.