ABSTRACT
Adrian Stokes's research in support of his carving aesthetic in the second volume of his quattrocento trilogy, Stones of Rimini, took him in early August 1932 to Venice on "what might prove to have been a honeymoon." Melanie Klein was making a difference to his life. So was Mollie Higgins. So too did another close friend, Margaret Gardiner. Through the scientist, Solly Zuckerman, she had met and become close friends with the sculptor, Barbara Hepworth. Stokes's tennis playing days with Pound in Rapallo were over now he was kept in London by his psychoanalytic treatment with Klein. He nevertheless kept in touch with Pound who often got him to run errands for him in connection with his Cantos and other writings. Klein too noted "his extraordinary power of dissimulation" through which, she said, he hid from others his inner psychological ills. He also hid his feelings from himself, she said, by dominating and "managing" others.
