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things he has done, lyrical and spontaneous. They, too, have given me great pleasure.

The lack of intelligent society here has otherwise rather depressed me. Such staleness is not conducive to literary composition. Your message and enclosures have given me a real "fillip", refreshing the eye and mind. After a spring like New Year's day the Tramontana blows lustily again.

My love to Natalie and many thanks, dear Romaine.

À bientôt, I hope, most sincerely.

Yours ever,
Harold

Transcription Notes:
Tramontana wind-- It is a northeasterly or northerly winter wind that blows from the Alps and Apennines (South of the Alps) to the Italian coast. It is very prevalent on the west coast of Italy and Northern Corsica.