31 March 1921
31 March 1921
31 March 1921
Villa Isola Bella, Menton, France
And heres a visitor — I smell his pipe. He’s coming in.
He came and stayed and stayed, and he and JMM talked clothes until the sky changed for the evening. I shall have to write one day a masculine dissertation on clothes. Ive listened to so many. JMM is just as interested in his clothes as a woman, tho’ in a different way. As to sewing - he loves it, and performs miracles of patching. You would laugh to hear him say in the middle of a conversation on, say, Burtons Anatomy of Melancholy: "Ive got a hellishly difficult piece of hem stitching here. I have to keep it tucked under with one hand and bind it with the other . . ." He’s very well and I think, quite happy. Good food does wonders for him.
Goodbye for now. I hope your Thursdays are a success. Yours ever
K.M.
[To Dorothy Brett in Collected Letters, early April 1921.]