Ever affectionately.
Mr. Arthur Ryland.
Gad's Hill Place, Saturday Evening, Oct. 3rd, 1857.
My dear Sir,
I have had the honour and pleasure of receiving your letter of the 28th of last month, informing me of the distinction that has been conferred upon me by the Council of the Birmingham and Midland Institute.
Allow me to assure you with much sincerity, that I am highly gratified by having been elected one of the first honorary members of that establishment. Nothing could have enhanced my interest in so important an undertaking; but the compliment is all the more welcome to me on that account.
I accept it with a due sense of its worth, with many acknowledgments and with all good wishes.
I am ever, my dear Sir, very faithfully yours.
Mr. Edmund Yates.
Tavistock House, Monday Night, Nov. 16th, 1857.