5 May
5 May
5 May 1920
2 Portland Villas, Hampstead - London
One must live alone and work & put away one's passion - ones passion for Life. It must all go into work. Queer - isn't it - how one realises it and yet there persists this longing not to take part in, but to see, to feel, to absorb, to find out. But perhaps, by accident, it will be fed occasionally - and for the rest - travailler - travailler - - -
Goodbye
K.M. [To Sydney and Violet Schiff in Collected Letters, 4 May 1920]
Violet dear,
If Camellia hasn't closed her doors, if you should happen to pass them would you order another silk jumper for me - a small size with long sleeves, yellow or beige or something approaching the strawberry. I will pay you when we meet. But my green one and even my adorable shawl only make me long for more in this sober sober weather. I am going to hear the Spanish singer next week. When Murry speaks of her she sounds wonderful.
Yours ever,
K.M.
If this is the least trouble of course you will just ignore it. But it need not necessarily be Camellia - any shop that sells them will serve. Here is a female commission! I feel I should send you at the same time my pattern for a ‘body' which hooks up from left to right and right to left. [To Violet Schiff in Collected Letters, 4 May 1920]