Autograph letter signed : the Lacket, Lockeridge, Marlborough, to Clive Bell, 1913 Nov. 25.

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Autograph letter signed : the Lacket, Lockeridge, Marlborough, to Clive Bell, 1913 Nov. 25.

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Strachey asks Bell if he may stay with him in London for a few days and mentions his health ("I have been feeling rather drab lately") and his work (he has just finished his "horrid" Stendhal article and is about to write about Restoration Comedy for the New Statesman). He concludes: "You seem to lead a very dissolute life in comparison with my rural purity. Well, well, at any rate it sounds enjoyable. I have to fall back on the beauties of nature, which have the drawback of not reciprocating. It's tiresome, for it would be delightful to be embraced by a prospect, sucked off by a cloud, and buggered by Savernake forest -- but one never is."

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