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Beaton/A/A1/430/23
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- 9 Mar. (No year given.) (Creation)
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6p paper
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Is appalled by Beaton's letter. Feels "passionately and burningly" for him. Has been waiting for calm in which to reply to his "Quebec-train letter". Discusses Beaton's trip to New York and his own life, which has been "so whirled about emotionally that I doubt if I'll recover". Talks about his evening hearing a cellist from Paris. Has been offered a plan for travelling, playing and writing in Paris and Prague. After Enid and Mietek's adventures it is extraordinary to be back in the real world "where only art matters and only books, pictures, music and flowers can live". The menage is already a "public scandal". Has missed Beaton insatiably during this transition period. Paul has had an awful time as the papers said all Germans were going to be sent back to Germany at once. Beaton's mother is buying some "hideous" things on her own. Hopes Beaton will not think him "a fool or a fiend".