Pêcheur d’Islands by Pierre Loti which I mentioned to you

TCD MS 11274/15 folio 4 recto

TCD MS 11274/15 folio 4 recto

[9 December 1915]

my last book Pêcheur d’Islands by Pierre Loti which I mentioned to you is unutterably sad but there is grand talk of the sea in it. It must be 12 years since I read it and yet I could remember everything that was going to happen and even a great many actual sentences & words so it must have made quite an impression on me in those days. Have you been to La Boheme yet; if you do see it and are disappointed, try & go again & when Rudolpho sings a song beginning “Che gelida marina” or if in French I dont know quite what but probably