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Letter from Darina Silone, Via Villa Ricotti 36, Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin wishing her a happy Christmas. She is about to leave for Paris for good. With envelope.

Letter from Darina Silone, Rome to Lorna Reynolds. She has returned to Rome to look after the affairs of her husband, who is in hospital in Switzerland. She complains about Iris Origo, whom she regards as poisonous, but the letter does not reveal the cause of the antipathy.

Letter from Darina Silone, Via Villa Ricotti 36, Rome to Lorna Reynolds, aux bons soirs de M. et Mme. Beppe Gaidoni, Villa L’Espiegle a la Bodie par St André de Nice 06530 (Alpes Maritimes), France. Darina is making arrangements to spend August in Geneva to keep her husband company and help him regain his ability to write following a series of spasms he has suffered. She rants about the Italian telephone organisation following a discovery that for several years they have been paying the bulk of the telephone bill of the Pensione Atena. She is frantically trying to scrape together enough money to keep her husband in hospital. She discusses at length her husband’s medical condition, which in her opinion was caused by the negligence and ignorance of the best Italian doctors. With envelope.

Letter from Darina Silone, Clinique Générale, Geneve to Lorna Reynolds. A friend of hers in Athens is dying and has expressed a wish to see her, but her own precarious health and lack of money are preventing her from going. Lorna’s brother Ken is ill and Darina urges Lorna to send his medical papers to Silone’s hospital in Geneva, where he could be admitted as a patient. Lacking pages 5 and 6.

Letter from Darina Silone, Hotel Mallika, Udupi 576101 (Karnataka), India to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. She is glad to be away from Rome, where there are people who are trying to destroy her. She assures Lorna that this is not persecution mania on her part. There is an unfounded rumour circulating that her husband died alone and abandoned by all except his publisher, which infuriates her. She provides sketchy impressions of Bombay and her journey to India and asks after Lorna’s brother, who is dying. With envelope.

Letter from Darina Silone, Via Villa Ricotti 36, Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin, discussing the problems she is having with her telephone line, giving Lorna her address in Switzerland, where she is going for an operation on her toe, and describing a phone call she received from Desmond O’Grady, who is writing a book about Denis Devlin and wants to meet her. With envelope.

Typed letter from Darina Silone, Via di Villa Ricotti 36, Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin, providing travel advice for Lorna’s planned trip to Switzerland with Kate O’Brien and the best routes from Switzerland to Italy. She also provides further details about the PEN Club congress in Venice, to which Kate O’Brien, Elizabeth Bowen and Liam O’Flaherty have been invited as guests of honour. With envelope.

Typed letter from Darina Silone, Via di Villa Ricotti 36, Roma to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin, mentioning items that Lorna has left behind in Rome and promising to send them back with her sister Eithne, who is staying with her. The letter contains an opaque reference to unhappiness in Darina’s marriage. With envelope.

Typed letter from Darina Silone, Via di Villa Ricotti 36, Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin, erroneously dated 1949. Darina is working reluctantly at translations to earn money as her husband is absorbed in politics and earning nothing. Her relationship with ‘A.F.’ is intensifying, bur remains friendly rather than amorous. With envelope.

Letter from Darina Silone, [Gruberhaus, Heiligenblut, Kärnten?], Austria to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin, describing her travel plans for Ireland. With envelope.