| Content Description | Addresses her as 'My dear Mary'; thinks he will leave on April 15th and go walking in Sardinia with [Jan] Juta; he has been hating Taormina but 'one hates everywhere in fits and starts'; will send her a photograph of the portrait painted by Miss [Millicent] Beveridge; has 2 copies of the 'American de-luxe edition of Women in Love' and will send her a copy although she will probably 'hate the inside'; Ottoline [Morrell] 'left Juta in the cold' and is having her portrait painted by Eric Gill, 'the fat-hipped soft fellow we saw at Anticoli last year'; the season has been very wet, 'hence very green'; would like to visit her in September and does not think he will go to England; signed 'D.H.L.'
Date: the letter is undated and has been annotated, in pencil in an unknown hand, with 'March or April 1921'; Boulton, 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence', vol. 3, p. 694 gives the date as 26 March 1921 based on references to the Millicent Beveridge portrait of D.H. Lawrence. |