Belle da Costa Greene letter to Bernard Berenson, 5 May 1914

Belle da Costa Greene, letter to Bernard Berenson, 5 May 1914, p.8. Bernard and Mary Berenson Papers, Box 62, Folder 1. Biblioteca Berenson, I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, courtesy of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

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hardly breathe for the joy of it–.
Kennerly came to the house for
dinner last night, just Mother
he + I as both the children were
dining out. He read to me
for several hours—Keats,
Shelley, and—Robert Bridges
whom he adores. Went to bed
quite early and had a horrid
dream about you—I must
send this off now too get it on
the K.W.II.
You must be sure to faithfully
report everything Agnes
says + does—Especially if
it is uncomplimentary to me!
It is so wonderful there, the
trees + grass + flowers, that
I know how far more
wonderful it must be in Florence—
Ever your devoted and
very loving
Belle