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he gives of the demoralization of Italy and of the Italian army. Your cable said that Mrs Curtis was in Rome. I wonder if that means that they both had to go there for the formalities, or perhaps that she let Ralph go back to France, and stayed in Rome herself-

It is Sunday & I have just come back from a sunny walk down over the snow to Loeffler’s, in the country.  He is giving a series of concerts for the Red Cross, and today played three sonatas, Faure, Debussy, Cesar Franck. The wonderful symphony concerts go on as usual in spite of a good deal of agitation about whether it is right to go, as [[Merck?]] is a German. He now plays the Star Spangled Banner at every concert, so people’s consciences are quieting down-.

The “Sense of the Past” is quite incomprehensible - I am sorry it has been published - it will strengthen the faction that prefer his early books to his later ones - Chas Coll's verses are charming - I will keep them,