Pièce 50 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Julian Trevelyan

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c/o Aulla [on headed notepaper for Poggio Gherardo, Settignano, Florence]. - Is going to Florence, probably next Monday, and will stay at Poggio Gherardo with the Waterfields; around 8 December will then go on to the Berensons at I Tatti, where Julian will join him, until about the 22nd or 23rd; they will then return to Poggio or perhaps visit [Umberto] Morra at Cortona for a while. Nicky [Mariano] writes that the Berensons hope Julian will come on the 10th or 11th. Suggests arrangements for reaching Florence via Bologna; Julian and Elizabeth must decide when he will start. Tells him to remember the Italian, French and Swiss money he left with Elizabeth, and the Baedeker; would be best if he brought dress clothes as the Berensons dress for dinner; also tells him not to put his feet on the train seats or he will be 'reproved and fined by the black-shirt who wanders along the corridor, seeking whom he may bully', and to check whether he needs to disembark for his luggage to be examined at borders or whether this will be done on the train. He should bring pocket dictionaries, but not more of other books than he needs, as 'there are millions of books here'. A shame that he will not see Aulla, which has finer scenery than anything else he knows of in Italy. Hopes the ballet goes well, and the scenery [painted by Julian?] is a success. John Waterfield and his sister [Kinta] will come out later, and Julian will see them at Poggio. Spent two nights at Lerici last week, and saw Shelley's house. Expects Elizabeth is now in Scotland, and will soon come to Cambridge; sorry that Julian is missing Donald [Tovey]'s concert.