Nov. 2

HILDA ALDINGTON
HÔTEL DE LA PAIX
LAUSANNE

Dear Viola,

Thank you for your two good letters; I am back here again, as
per above. I was so glad to hear of Perdita with you. She is
always happy to be with you; believe me, she is very independant and
there are people I have suggested her going to, and she won't; so
you may be sure she liked the idea of you all to begin with, and liked
you all even better, when she saw you. You are very good to
take her about and show her cliffs and inns and picnic-places. I
must ask Bryher what she can do for you; theatre or what? We will
talk it over this afternoon; Bryher had to move to the small house in
Pully, yesterday because of the cold. So now, I am very happy, as I miss
her in the summer and here, we meet almost daily. It is a ½ hour by
tram or trolly, then a short but stiff up-hill walk to the little house.
It is very charming with a garden but small after the great space
of her villa with its tarraced garden and balconies. Did I

ever send you photographs ? I must really look out more for you. Just now, I have not yet finished un-packing and my winter-trunk is waiting in the hall, not yet unlocked, but I will get to it one day soon and try to un-earth some more oddments. I blush that you thank me for the PEARLS. Actually, they are very pretty. A friend , or rather mother of a friend, with magnificent pearls, used to but these here, simply as she thought them so pretty and she may even have stored her treasures, and worn these on occasions. They are lake-pearls, perles du lac; made of some special mother-of-pearl. Actually the process was at one time, quite famous, I don't know if they still make them. The little town where they come from is just across the lake but on the French side. We were able to go there by boat but needed a pasport to go "beyond the bridge." I have not been there, to San Gingolf ( spelling) for many, many years. The comb MAY be valuable, as I got it at a sale for war-help, during the war. It is not at all suitable for me; but as a souvenir, I