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- 5 December 1918 (Creation)
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Letter to Ruth Mallory written from France
Describes the purchases he had spent a long time over choosing which included embroideries for the Holt and some books. Describes the bookshops he had been into. Hopes she doesn’t think he has been extravagent.
Had been to the library and held with indescribeable emotion the manuscript of Figaro from which Beaumarchais had read out his play. It had many corrections. It was a genuine sense of wonder and enthusiasm to hold such a document in his hand and more than interesting to see the trials of authorship were the same as they were for him.
Answers her question about opera and explains how it is founded upon well known stories and the libretto was written by a composer.
Had been to the Comédie Française which was a good piece but not one of the very best.
Was sorry he couldn’t stay longer in Paris but was more sorry that he hadn’t received a telegram giving him leave to return to England.