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Jan. 9, 196h

Dear Victor:

Thanks for your letter. I am glad that you liked the "Pilgrimage" niece'
and I think you are right about the title. I will have to give it some thought.
A more complete text with footnotes etc was published by a magazine called
"Cithara" at St Bonaventure University, New York. I had not thought about
the title problem at that time however. Marco Pallis also asked me to let him
submit it to some magazine in England, for which he himself writes.
Incidentally,l have been trying to get the Columbia Record people interested
in recording some of the work of Marco Pallis' Group, called "The “nglish
Consort of Viols". They must play a lot of things T would like to hear,
especially settings of sixteenth and seventeenth century songs. 1"'oes the "ni—
versity Library have a record collection from which one can borrow“ Berhans
not. I would be interestexd in some of the original settings of songs by
Edmund waller etc, if they exist and are there. Put T suppose this is rather
a complexfi and difficult request.You can suggest it to Carolyn, but nrobablv
nothing can be done.

Certainly I would be delighted to write some notes on your religious’
paintings for a booklet of reproductions. I think it is an excellent idea.

I would have to look more at the paintings to get mv thoughts in order.

we shall see what comes of the project. But T am certainly willing to get

into it, though of course T cannot right at this instant. T still have a couule
of prefaces and reviews hanging over my head.‘

Here are the best of the pictures I took, or rather two of them Carolyn
took. They are not as bad as all that, in fact in every case T was disobeying
the advice of the camera. 80 that just shows that one must not always how to
technology. In fact I am sure that if T did what the camera wanted and took the
pictures with a flash, they would have been very stunid and insipid. As it is
they seem to me to have a li+tle character.

It was very good to see you, and it is good to hear from you. Vonr writing
is as firm and regular as ever, and T am sure that working on the "Resurrection"
will keep your hand in trim. It is a oity‘you can‘t nrint "“ilgrimaee" it is
something I would love to have in a booklet from the Stamperia.

best wishes and blessings. Keep well. May God give you peace health and joy.

Blessings to both of you.
In Christ Our Lord,

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