Item 35 - Letter from Tet Htoot to R. C. Trevelyan

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45 Bernard St, W.C.1. - Bob should not have worried about Tet Htoot losing his beret: wishes Mary Ann had not told him and made him fret 'amid hilarious rejoicings on New Years Eve'. Tet Htoot found it the next afternoon at the Mandeville. Had bought it in Brittany, worn it in Paris and did not realise how much he cared for it until he found he had lost it: compares it to 'an old wife whose existence one had taken for granted'. Adds a postscript continuing their discussion from New Year's morning: Bob may have misunderstood him, as he was not suggesting 'coming down to the low level of the people' as a poet, but that 'the votaries of the muses' should follow Christ's example and 'move among the people for very dangerous weapons are in their hands'.