Item 66 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Caroline Trevelyan

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Pensione Palumbo, Ravello [on headed notepaper for Il Frullino, Via Camerata, Florence]:- Is going on this afternoon to Ravello, where his mother should send further letters; it is 'rather cold' here and he thinks he will do better with his work further south, 'though it has been very pleasant here'. Will arrive before lunch tomorrow. Glad Charles has returned safely (from his trip to North America and the Pacific with Sidney and Beatrice Webb): wants 'to see his photos very much'. Booa says he and Sir George had 'a good day shooting' recently. There is 'too much Xmas shooting out here': it is impossible to go out without seeing 'half a dozen lazy looking scoundrels... murdering the small birds'.

Asks his mother to send his father's book [the first volume of The American Revolution] to Ravello, and wonders if his father would mind also sending a copy to Mr [Bernard] Berenson]; knows Berenson would be 'very much gratified... and would certainly read it with great appreciation', but Berenson would 'of course' get a copy himself so Sir George should do as he sees fit. It is time to start so cannot write much more; will write again from Ravello. Sends love to all. Mrs [Helen] Fry is 'still getting better'; she and Roger are 'at Dorking now'.