Item 185 - Letter from 'Jack' [François Ceccaldi] to 'Flaminica' [Lady Frazer]

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54 Cours Napoléon, Ajaccio, Corse – Welcomes the news [of the new book?]; she is going to the country, and he is too, though Catherine [Giamarchi, a niece] is renovating the outside stairs; they are without farmers, the Italian family they had for 8 years having left in the panic and returned to Livorno, having been paid 2,000 lire by the Fascists; another turned back, having been pursued by Catherine's maid, and has decided to stay despite the promises of glory and wealth of his miserable homeland; she has been providential for the 'Rameau d’or' and despite her illness 'Australasia'; he is still proofing his cartography of Corsica, is waiting for the return of some maps as it turns out those in his collection don’t appear in the Nationale or the Institut de Géographie; thinks they will have a good time in Newcastle, he admires England, and will be thinking of her on the 28th when "Australasia" comes out; praises [Franklin] Roosevelt for being the voice of reason; has been rereading Xenophon and Socrates and Simonides, and believes they should be given 'aux Fuhrers et aux Duci de nos jours'; thanks her for the 'Times'.

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