The Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II
August 1920
To Violet Schiff
August 1920
I'm much better. The ‘trouble’ has been I've had an overdose of vaccine and it laid me low. Ten million— or twenty million—hosts of streptococci attacked and fought one another. I have done with vaccine.
My Catholic cousins (the Villa Flora ones) have bought page 35 a new large villa in Garavan—the other bay. It has, at its gates, a doll's house with a verandah, garden, every—thing complete. And this I have taken from them. I shall be in touch with them, still, and they are getting me a maid and so on, but at the same time I'm. free—can you imagine the delight of writing to the Villa Violet, of telephoning to them (my Isola Bella has a telephone 1) and asking them if they will come over? Don't you envy me?
By the time you come my garden will be full of flowers. Heavens! what a joy that will be. And we shall ignore time—trick the wretch just for a little.
1 It hadn't.