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ALDOUS HUXLEY (1894-1963)
A 4pp. a.l.s. to H.M. Tomlinson, dated 15 Via Santa Margharita a Montici, Florence, 10.XI.24, recommending a series of gramophone records: 'unfortunately conducted by Coates, the most horribly insensitive, coarse & unintelligent conductor of this or any other age', commenting on mutual friends and concluding: 'Do come and visit us here. We always have a spare bed, maccaroni & red wine; not to mention a capital view with Norman Douglas in the middle distance.'

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For a description of this stay in Florence with Maria a Montici, cf. Sybille Bedford Aldous Huxley: The Apparent Stablity, London, Paladin, 1987, pp. 146-151.

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