Via Ciro Menotti, 36

Rome, 18.X.'48.

Dear Mrs. Aldington:

Your very kind letter of Oct. 6th came duly to hand a few days ago, and I was much touched by our good friend Ezra Pound's kind thought of me in writing to you about the C.G.R. book of "Verses"which I should like to sell at a good price. I am indeed obliged to you for forwarding the letter to your friend in California. I remember many years ago, when I was staying at Pasadena, being told by a bibliophil that the Huntington Library made a speciality in poets of the P.R.B. period, but I could not remember the name; now seeing it written in your letter it comes back to me. and I should not be surprised if you have put me on the right track. I was also pleased to see the cutting about the P.R.B. exhibitions; there is evidently a revival of interest in their work in England. My sister, Mrs. Rossetti Angeli, who lives in London is publishing this autumn a book on Rossetti and his Friends, in which she tries to show the D.G.R. group as it was in fact after all the "fiction" of a more less "muck-raking" nature that has been published in the thirties.

My personal trouble has been the discovery that a favourite grandchild (just 19) had both lungs very seriously affected. She is improving remarkably, but it entails very expensive treatment in a sanatorium with streptomycin and which is an enormously costly drug, and we are professional people living exclusively on "earned income" and it takes a lot of lessons and translations to foot the bills, so I shld. be very glad to sell the little book, which is a unique treasure for the right bibliophil, but "caviare to the multitude".

Again thanking you for your helpful kindness to an unknown friend of friends, Believe me,