This ninth page from Dante Diary which is not dated, was drawn in Rio de Janeiro. Text at the top left corner reads, "dante in brazil," and on the top right corner, "Waiting for Pella in the New Wave." Pella refers to Tom's friend, the bookbinder Pella Erskine-Tulloch. A collaged "NY & Lakeville," with the name Lakeville scratched out, is placed below this caption. Phillips' handwritten notes explain that the plans to go to Lakeville, Connecticut with Martin and Diane Ackerman were cancelled. Phillips also writes that on his return trip from Brazil to New York via Miami he "was able to smuggle a postcard out of the tourist lounge at 5 a.m. to send to the Sackners whom I'd have loved to have seen." Phillips mentions his search for the Virgin Butterfly native to Brazil. The image of butterflys and poetry from "A Humument" is found in the third illustration of Canto II. ["A butterfly gives meaning to brighten poetry."] In his iconographical notes and commentary on the illustrations in the Thames and Hudson trade edition of the Inferno, Phillips writes, "The strange south American butterfly, Catagramma Neglecta, whose name implies a beautiful hidden image, is sometimes referred to as the '88' of '89' Butterfly of the Virgin Butterfly. The numbers eight and nine are central to Dante's numerological preoccupations (these as explained in the note to Canto IX/1, form another thread running through his entire work). As he makes clear in La Vita Nuova the number nine is Beatrice's number: the number eight enters the story at Beatrice's death to form another link with the Virgin Mary who died on the eighth day of the ninth month (hence the name given to the butterfly). Here the butterfly is seen realising itself as Beatrice descending to Virgil as the emissary of Mary. In funerary art, the butterfly represents the soul ascending (cf. Purgatorio X). Phillips states that "On a visit to Brazil, I combed the various shops which traded in butterflies for a specimen of the catagramma neglecta. The numbers were blurred on most examples and many of them were (if butterflies can be so described) rather moth-eaten. On my return to England however, David Attenborough was kind enough to give me a perfect specimen from his own collection which is the one pictured here." The main images of this work are two women, drawn on the right half of the page in red and black ink, who appear to be sunbathing. These figures appear again on the lower left corner of Phillips' print "Memoirs of the Dante Diary," a work held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.