Item 182 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Caroline Trevelyan

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Casa Boccaccio. - Thanks his mother for her letter; asks her to tell Bessie that he will write to her tomorrow. Is glad to have a good account of her and Julian. The weather here is 'now quite hot again'. Is getting on 'fairly' with his work, and is having a pleasant time. The Abercrombies seem to enjoy it here very much, and Lascelles has got on well with his work. They are 'very pleasant companions'. [Will] Arnold Forster has not yet arrived, but they expect him next week.

Has a 'very uneventful' life here, and has not yet been down to Florence. Occasionally dines with the Berensons, and met Edith Wharton 'the novellist [sic] there' last time; she 'seemed clever', but he did not see much of her; she says [Henry] James is 'very much better'. Hears James is coming to Welcombe at Easter. Wharton does not think James' 'last book [The Outcry], about picture-dealing, one of his best; and it seems anyhow to have been originally designed as a play'.

Must finish now, as the weather is so good. Expects it was 'too late for the Grafton to ask for the picture'; she should see the show if possible. They hear nothing about the [Italo-Turkish] war here, and he does not take an Italian paper. Sends love to his father, Bessie and Julian.