1 Alassio
2 Sunday
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4 Dear EC.
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6 I’m here at my beloved Alassio. I wonder if it wouldn’t do your
7sisters good to come here. London with out sunshine depresses people
8so when they are ill. Oh Edward it is like Paradise here today. I
9walked to the promontory & saw the blue bays & ^blue^ mountains with the
10white snowy mountains beyond Spitzer, sticking out beyond. There could
11be nothing on earth more beautiful. I am so well here, that I can’t
12help feeling it would do everyone else good. I shall be here for two
13or three weeks, before I tear myself away to go on to Florence. Flor
14Thankyou for the cards of introduction. I shall use them when I go. A
15very nice old German (I fancy a professor) & his delightful wife are
16here, & they are expecting in a few days a friend who sha has been a
17professor in Japan & has married a Japanese wife, who is coming with
18him. It will be interesting to meet her. I’ve never personally met a
19Jap; I wonder if I shall feel drawn to her as I do to Indian ^women.^ I
20have a curious sympathy with many Indians.
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22 Its so beautiful & restful here, Edward. For 17 years I’ve longed to
23be here, & now I find it more beautiful than I thought.
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25 There is only the nightmare of Africa in the background. The
26Government there thinks that by imprisoning hundreds of men & shooting
27^down^ others they can keep a whole people down. I see nothing but a
28?path of blood before us.
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30 Good bye dear.
31 Olive.
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33 ^I suppose your sisters are unreadable ^^too^^ ill to be moved, otherwise I
34think a change to some part of the Riviera must be good for them.^
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36 ^If they thought of coming here I would try to find suitable rooms.^
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