Can you kindly return it, dear?
Your most loving, J.H.E.
[In pencil.]
Where does R—— sail from?
I see by to-day's Times the others have sailed from Dartmouth. My dear Marny—can't you and R—— come here en route if only for a night? It would be so nice! It would be such a pleasure to Rex and me to Godspeed him—and he would feel quite like Gladstone if he had an ovation at every stopping point on the Flying Dutchman!
To Colonel Jelf.
November 18, 1884.
Dear Richard,
I wish you could have paused here—I wish that you were even likely to run through Taunton station in the Flying Dutchman, and that we could have run down to head a cheer for you!—But Gravesend is handier for Marny.
She's a real Briton—and it is that "undaunted mettle" that does "compose" the sinews of "peace with honour" for a country as well as war!