Letter from Alice Trusted, St. Mawgan, to Katharine Bradley, 1905 June 10 : autograph manuscript signed.

Expressing her concern for how they "...bore the fatigue of that fatiguing day : how you were afterwards. Our parting is vividly before me just on the threshold of that ancient theatre (soon to be pulled down, I fear - the kind of theatre that so pleases me in its exterior & interior) - & in the Strand;" quoting from Dante and from Drummond of Hawthorne's "A Cyprus Grove;" relating a short history of the Adelphi Terrace as it related to Garrick, Mrs. Garrick, Beauclerk, Boswell and Johnson; giving her opinion on Mme. Réjane's performance in 'La Petite Marquise' and adding "I regard Mme. Réjane as a fine actress & capable of giving us tragedy not any less than comedy. But it is Mme. Duse who affected my spirit and haunted me hour after hour;" offering to organize a meeting with Mrs. Meynell so that Edith could meet Dr. Saleeby, Mrs. Meynell's son-in-law; describing her introduction to Dr. Saleeby saying "This formidable olive complexioned (& Armenian in appearance) man came into the room one of the times I was at the Meynells & Mrs. Meynell said to me 'I should like you to know my son in law' introduced us - I was timid but was re-assured, discovering he loves classical music & after a talk he said I should like to sing to you & played as well as sung...I did not mean to disparage Mrs. Meynell : I liked her so much & her extreme refinement & freedom from vanity & conceit and each time she is so good as to ask me to come, & even to have dinner. Let me say she lacks that fine diction welling forth from ardent natures & let me say yourselves make me fastidiously inclined & dissatisfied with others. Neither do I want to spend time anywhere else save in those parlours at Richmond that have grown dear to me. With my everlasting love and gratitude - I don't name Edith for she is always part of yourself to me."