Pièce 44 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Julian Trevelyan

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I Tatti, Settignano, Florence. - Not sure of the exact date of Julian's birthday, so is writing now, and sending to stamps. Will leave Florence on Monday, spend a few days at the [Waterfields'] Castle at Aulla, then go to Paris for a short time and be back in England on 25 February. Hopes to visit Julian soon at Bedales, or perhaps go to a Haslemere concert if there are any more. Expects the wireless will be working when he returns, so there will be no reading in the evenings 'but we shall be always ringing up or switiching on or tapping (or whatever one does) Barcelona, Bilthoven or Mineapolis [sic]'. Is staying in a house with the 'best private library' [Bernard Berenson's] he has ever seen; it is 'first-rate' as an art library, with 'hundreds of thousands of photos' though he doesn't look at them. Has put 'two Franciscan centenary stamps on this letter', which Julian my not have. Hears the Hurtenham [Julian's imaginary town] Exhibition (or Festival) Theatre is to be dismantled; hopes it had a 'good winter season', and that Julian is now 'mastering the oboe' and [Cicero's] "Pro Milone".