Faithfully yours.
Mrs. E. M. Ward.
5, Hyde Park Place, W., Wednesday, May 11th, 1870.
My dear Mrs. Ward,
I grieve to say that I am literally laid by the heels, and incapable of dining with you to-morrow. A neuralgic affection of the foot, which usually seizes me about twice a year, and which will yield to nothing but days of fomentation and horizontal rest, set in last night, and has caused me very great pain ever since, and will too clearly be no better until it has had its usual time in which to wear itself out. I send my kindest regard to Ward, and beg to be pitied.
Believe me, faithfully yours always.
Mr. William Charles Kent.
5, Hyde Park Place, W., Tuesday, May 17th, 1870.
My dear Kent,