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2.XII.51 c/o Amer. Ex.  Florence:  I've though of you so often that I keep thinking I have written. I've had various little onesided conversations that never got sent.  I've told you that I'm settled here for the winter--on the right bank:  that after climbing 124 steps I look out on the Palazzo Vecchio, The Duomo, The Campanile etc; that my terracotta stove seems adequate, my bath tub a la Degas tin-tub completely inadeuate.  I must have gone on to say that I take my baths chez J & M who are on teh wrong bank but with a sliver of a view of the Arno and the Palazzo V.  much farther away than my P.V.  J also has a studio that's too cold to use--hube, with a grand on which we play d'Anglebert and Scarlatti.  I bought all 500 pieces of the latter.  There are really about 10 muliplied by 50. . .Have you for your clavichord, tried Azzolino della Ciaja?  He'is [sic] J's great discovery:  very bizarre and wonderful, I think. . .I know that I haven't written MERRY XMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and Mr.s Aitkin.  I say so now, hoping that it will be a specialty.