Item 4 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Edward Hodgkin

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Hotel and Pension Palumbo. - 'This [the news of Edward's engagement] is very fine and splendid, this is magnificent, this is superb'; however, Edward has not told him who his fiancée is. With no name, he 'must fall back on my faith in your known prudence, judgment, and shall I add connoisseurship'; Edward has also not said when the wedding is to be, and Bob would like to know whether he is likely to be in England at the time. Cannot 'try to make an Epithalamium' without a name. If Edward can get the marriage over 'in a week or two', tells him to come over to Italy. Spends all his days 'in the woods or on Cembrone [Cimbrone]'. Repeats in a postscript how 'awfully pleased' he is.