6 May
6 May
6 May 1920
2 Portland Villas, Hampstead - London
Dearest Ottoline,
A thousand thanks for the lovely Basket of Flowers. They were more than welcome in this cold and sad country after the South.
Yes I am home again but only until September. Then I go back into the small mountains until November and then to a flat near Monte for the winter. I had to come back; there were so many things to see to and M. had found his domestic worries more than he could bear. It is dread¬ful to be in England again. I had had a perfect time since January and am determined never to live in England again. There - in the South - one regains all one's love of life and people and one ‘walks in Beauty' -unimaginable beauty this spring. It is simply tragic to meet this reluctant painful England again. I thank Heaven that September is so soon.
What ungracious words! But you know how one has always longed to find one's country, one's few friends, climate, way of Life and having found all this and more I feel rather lost at present. I do hope we shall meet when you are in town. Brett came in to tea yesterday. She and M. are grown fast friends.
I suppose you have heard the Spanish singer Raquel Meller I wish we could go to hear her together - I long to.
Yours ever with love
Katherine [To Ottoline Morrell in Collected Letters, early May 1920]