Item 64 - Letter from Umberto Morra di Lavriano to R. C. Trevelyan

I Tatti, Settignano, Florence. - Is returning home after about ten days at I Tatti; will return to Florence at the beginning of March. Mary seems much better; her mood is very pleasing to them but not to the nuns, since having been 'a little over-sentimental' after her illness she has now recovered from that too. Hopes she will not remain an invalid. His article on Virginia [Woolf] will appear in the March number of "Pègaso"; Pancrazi thinks he has made the book appear 'very boring', which he did not intend; hopes Trevelyan does not mind the liberties he has taken in translating some of it. Now writing an article about Lytton Strachey and asks for information about his life, upbringing and so on. Is glad about the success of Julian's pictures and that Trevelyan is not worried about the Edinburgh performance [of Donald Tovey's opera "The Bride of Dionysus", with libretto by Trevelyan]. Read [Clifford] Allen's pamphlet ["Labour's Future at Stake"?] with great interest and hopes Allen is well enough to play the part in politics he wishes. Hopes that the French and German elections give better results than expected. Bernson is in a 'quiet but very nice mood, almost resigned'.