| Document Reference | La Z 4/1/5 |
| Title | Letter from D.H. Lawrence, Fontana Vecchia, Taormina, Sicilia to Mary Cannan; Sunday 12 Dec. 1920. |
| Date | 12 December 1920 |
| Extent | 1 f |
| Level | Item/file |
| Content Description | Addresses her as 'My dear Mary'; things have brightened up and it is 'quite warm'; they have 'suddenly dashed into society - or been popped in by [Robert] Kitson'; discusses their social activities and some of the people they have met including Rosalie Bull 'a theosophist', Baron Stempl and Mrs Leader Williams 'from your palace - where they sell things at home'; gives news of [Alan] Insole and Kitson; talks about their 'good oven' and lists some of the things he has cooked; Taormina is amusing and he is 'cogitating' on whether to keep the house for another year or go 'to the wilds of Sardinia'; their salotta is 'very cosy' and he supposes she will 'be trotting back'; hopes she received the 'Christmas hanky'; signed 'D.H.L.' |
| Term | social visits, D.H. Lawrence |
| Copyright | The Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli. |
| ReprodnNote | University of Nottingham. |
| Physical Description | Written in dark ink on both sides of a folio of unlined paper; dimensions are 267 x 212 mm; one horizontal and one vertical fold in the paper; perforations along the top edge of the paper. |
| Publication Note | James T. Boulton and Andrew Robertson, eds. 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984) vol III, pp 636-37
Harry T. Moore, ed. 'The Collected Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (London: Heinemann, 1962) pp 637-38 |
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Persons
| Code | PersonName | Dates of existence |
| NA75455 | Kitson; Robert Hawthorn (1873-1947); amateur watercolourist and expert photographer | 1873-1947 |
| NA74693 | Insole; Alan (fl 1920-1921); Welsh painter and writer | fl 1920-1921 |
| NA75456 | Stempel; Baron (c.1872-c.1965); eccentric; of Taormina Sicily | c.1872-c.1965 |
| NA75457 | Bull; Rosalie (-c.1922); -; theosophist | -c.1922 |
| NA75458 | Williams; Lilian Leader (fl 1920); antique dealer | fl 1920 |
| NA42 | Lawrence; D.H. (1885-1930); David Herbert; writer | 1885-1930 |
| NA400 | Cannan; Mary (1867-1950); née Ansell; married Gilbert Cannan 1910 former wife of Sir J.M. Barrie | 1867-1950 |
Places
| Code | Set |
| PL1599 | /Taormina/Sicily/Italy |