Autograph letter signed : Florence, to Davy Pain(?), [1922?] Feb. 22.

Expressing his appreciation for his "interest in my work. Perhaps, as people keep sending plays to me, you might care to let it be generally known that I am now writing plays myself. I have nearly finished one in prose on a historical subject, of which the scene is laid in Kent in the XIXth century;" adding "In search of quiet I have taken as a home the beautiful old Villa of the Marchese Viviani's family, near Settignano, three miles east of Florence. It stands on a high sunny bluff over the Arno Valley, right in the middle of poderes of olives and vineyards. Just outside its vineyard wall, to the East, stand three interesting villinos. In one of these worked Michelangelo when a lad (& his drawings are still on the wall). In the cottage immediately below that lived Eleonora Duse, and hard by this, and within the Viviani vineyards stands Gabriele D'Annunzio's little former home - La Capponcina - where he wrote before he left Italy for Arcachon;" inviting him to visit to "renew our talk of Emerson & other things - & to give you a bed."