| Content Description | Addresses her as 'My dear Pamela'; the tea came yesterday (see Z 4/3/21 and 22), he had to pay 21 Liras duty; asks her to send more, encloses the money with thanks; asks how she likes the photograph of the house, Frieda is 'that speck in one of the windows'; describes the surroundings to the house, the weather and the variety of flowers in the garden; the two 'Miss Beveridges' [Millicent and Mary] and Mabel Harrison are coming to a villa across the 'dip'; Frieda's daughters are not coming until April when Frieda will meet them in Baden; had a cheerful letter from Gertie [Cooper]; signed 'D.H.L.'
Date: the letter has been annotated 'Spring 1927', in pencil in an unknown hand; Boulton, 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence', vol. 5, p. 644 dates the letter as 20 February 1927. |