Record

Document Reference	La Z 4/1/8
Title	Letter from D.H. Lawrence, Fontana Vecchia, Taormina, Sicilia to Mary Cannan; 15 Mar. 1921
Date	15 March 1921
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Addresses her as 'My dear Mary'; has just accompanied Frieda to Palermo from where she is travelling to see her mother in Baden-Baden; he will stay in [Taormina, Sicily] as 'with one thing and another' he cannot 'manage' his plan [for the farm in Connecticut, U.S.A.]; returns her cheque with thanks and corrects her plural of thousand from 'mille' to 'mila'; a 'Scotch-woman - a Miss [Millicent] Beveridge' is painting his portrait; describes Sicily on his return the previous day as 'lovely' and he is taking Fontana Vecchia for another year; remarks that he 'disbelieves' the Murrys [John Middleton Murry and Katherine Mansfield]; everyone is 'in giro' and mentions that [Jan] Juta met Ottoline and Julian [Morrell] in Rome and [Alan] Insole is 'on his way to Japan'; signed 'D.H.L.'
Term	languages, Italian
	art, portraits, of D.H. Lawrence
	art, paintings, Millicent Beveridge
Copyright	The Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli.
ReprodnNote	University of Nottingham.
Physical Description	Written in dark ink on both sides of a single folio of unlined paper; watermarked; dimensions are 209 x 132; one horizontal fold in the paper.
Publication Note	James T. Boulton and Andrew Robertson, eds. 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984) vol III, p 681

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA169	Lawrence; Frieda (1879-1956); née von Richthofen; married Ernest Weekley 1899 D.H. Lawrence 1914 Antonio Ravagli 1950	1879-1956
NA3386	Beveridge; Anne Millicent (1871-1955); Scottish painter	1871-1955
NA74693	Insole; Alan (fl 1920-1921); Welsh painter and writer	fl 1920-1921
NA5438	Juta; Jan (1897-); South African painter	1897-
NA3375	Morrell; Ottoline V.A. (1873-1938); Lady; née Cavendish-Bentinck; patroness of artists and writers	1873-1938
NA171	Murry; John Middleton (1889-1957); editor, author and critic	1889-1957
NA384	Mansfield; Katherine (1888-1923); pseud. of Kathleen Beauchamp; married George Bowden 1909 John Middleton Murry 1918; writer	1888-1923
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