Item 23 - Letter from Florence Melian Stawell to George Macaulay Trevelyan

Thanks George for the book ["The Bride of Dionysus"], which she has read avidly and thinks the best thing his brother has done; a few of the poems at the end also 'got home to' her,; thought the translation from Alcman 'exquisite' though is not sure about the "Attis" [a translation of Catullus 63] and Lucretius'. Intended to get the book herself, as the Ariadne story reminds her of Mr [Henry Graham] Dakyns, who liked it; quotes in Greek 'Earth's child am I, and starry heaven's' [a line associated with the Orphic tradition' which he also loved, and can 'almost hear' him reading George's brothers 're-creation.' It was an excellent thought to send it to her.

Annotation by G.M.T. above the date saying that he gave Melian Stawell Bob's book, and this is her comment.