Pièce 81 - Letter from Lady Evelyn Lister to R. C. Trevelyan

98 Grenfell Road, Maidenhead, Berks. - Hopes that her letter of thanks last month [19/82] for Trevelyan's poems ["From the Shiffolds"] did not get lost in the post, as two of her letters have done recently. The poems were very welcome in her 'drab' surroundings, where 'all around, within, is "Ug! - Ug!- Ug!" as Philip Burne-Jones use'd to say'. Has had 'far [emphasised] worse experiences & 18 year's illness' but everything is still very blank and lonely. Despite the dreadfulness of the present time, she hopes that Trevelyan's translation is going well; to spend a 'few lovely hours with Montaigne' must be a great relief. [Bach's] "St Matthew's Passion" would be as well, though she last heard it many years ago, one Easter with E. F. Benson, who used to read many of his novels to her from the manuscript.