Item 129 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Caroline Trevelyan

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The Shiffolds, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking. - Bessie came downstairs for the first time [since the birth of their baby] yesterday. She and Paul are both well: she washed him yesterday, and is to have lessons in this. Thanks his mother for the 'three pheasants', which arrived yesterday; they have 'just had one for lunch.

Hopes George, Charles, J[anet], M[olly] and the children are 'all enjoying themselves'. Does not think he should leave Bessie at the moment, as he will be 'going abroad so soon, some time in February' and probably to La Croix. Margaret Vaughan Williams has come to visit Bessie this afternoon; the 'fear of influenza infection is considered over by now'.

Yesterday was beautifully warm, but today it is 'dull and cold'; he thinks though that he must 'go out into the Leith Hill Wood', smoke his pipe, and do some work. Hopes when he comes back from 'abroad' he will have finished his play [Sisyphus], and will not mind her seeing it then, as 'a proper ending will make it twice as interesting'.

Sends love to his father and everyone else; asks her to tell Charles he meant to write to him but then Bessie wrote to Molly; will do so soon unless they see each other in London.