Item 173 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Caroline Trevelyan

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c/o A[ubrey] Waterfield, La Fortezza, Aulla, Lunigiana, Italy. - Reached here safely on Sunday, and found everyone well. Had 'one fine day, but now there is a tremendous storm'; however, it is 'very comfortable inside... as it ought to be with walls more than twelve feet thick'. Left Bessie and Julian very well, and has heard from Bessie since that they are all right; Julian had 'some sort of mild eczema,', but the doctor was reassuring and it is 'already better'. The nurse here knows nurse Stevens [the Trevelyan's new nurse] - in fact, she originally recommended her - speaks 'very highly of her'.

He and the Waterfields are all going to Florence in about a week, to stay for a fortnight at a villa near the Berensons'; will then return and stay a few more days here before returning 'about the time Bessie is coming South', if, as he hopes, she goes to stay with his parents at Wallington.

Is just finishing Forster's new novel Howard's End; sees that he probably will not like the end, but generally thinks it is 'much better than anything he has done hitherto, both better written and more interesting characters', anyway she should read it.

Hopes his parents are both well, and that 'Charlie is all right again'. Saw some 'judicious remarks of you about the blessèd Conference, reported in my Guardian Angel, who watches over my political welfare here as everywhere'. Sends love to all, and will write to his father soon.