| Content Description | Addresses her as 'My dear Sister'; has been waiting to send her cloth; Frieda got her a 'smallish tea-cloth, sort of terra-cotta and six napkins'; 'Barby' [Barbara, Frieda's daughter] will bring it back from Italy and post it to her from London; 'Barby' is in Alassio, Frieda and her sister have gone to visit her; Else [Jaffe] has been staying on her way back from Capri and will go from Alassio to Heidelberg; he will begin packing up on Monday as they are to leave [Villa Mirenda] for Switzerland; will stay in Switzerland until July, then England and perhaps Taos [New Mexico] in the autumn; has been taking Ada's medicine but it does not have much effect, his chief trouble is 'bronchial' and he does not believe the medicine is for bronchials.
Has had a postcard from 'Peg' [Margaret, Emily's daughter] at Versailles [Paris] and she seems to be having a good time; knows that the shop is wretched but [Emily] should have got a decent business when Sam[uel King] was leaving Carlton; she must watch carefully for an opportunity of getting out of Bulwell; asks why she took another shop which depended on coal; Miss [Millicent] Beveridge and her sister [Mary] are arriving in Florence today, he will send her something with them when they return to England; signed 'D.H.L.'
Includes a plain envelope (La Z 4/3/40/2), addressed to Mrs S. King, 16 Brooklands Rd, Sneinton Hill, Nottingham, Inghilterra ; bears a blue 1,25 Lire stamp, postmarked Fi[renze], Ferrovia 13.iv.28; the envelope has been numbered '7' in pencil on the verso; the envelopes for La Z 4/3/1-70 (letters from D.H. Lawrence to Emily King) were previously separated from the letters themselves and given an individual pencil number; as far as possible these envelopes have now been matched up with their corresponding letters and sub-numbered according to the letter which they originally contained. |