Item 59 - Letter from Umberto Morra di Lavriano to R. C. Trevelyan

Cortona. - Has just read the news of Trevelyan's father's death in the newspapers and, though it is not unexpected, knows it will be felt deeply. Has not heard from Trevelyan in a while; he gets some news through 'the B.B.s' [Bernard Berenson's household] but this is not detailed. Thinks he owes him some copies of Desmond MacCarthy's review, which he gets twice, once through Logan [Pearsall Smith]; hears the review is something of a disappointment but cannot judge. Has been at the Consuma, where he met Berenson's youngest sister [Rachel] and her husband [Ralph Barton] Perry; they are charming, but she has a horrid voice and 'looks too much American and too little jew'. They are worried that Mary will not come back well; B.B. never thinks that she should rest.