May you have good sleep and pleasant dreams. I shall still look forward to seeing you with Lady Wemyss.
Believe me always,
Yours affectionately,
B. JOWETT.
BALLIOL COLLEGE, Sep. 8,1892.
MY DEAR MARGARET,
Your kind letter was a very sweet consolation to me. It was like you to think of a friend in trouble.
Poor Nettleship, whom we have lost, was a man who cannot be replaced—certainly not in Oxford. He was a very good man, and had a considerable touch of genius in him. He seems to have died bravely, telling the guides not to be cowards, but to save their lives. He also sang to them to keep them awake, saying (this was so like him) that he had no voice, but that he would do his best. He probably sang that song of Salvator Rosa's which we have so often heard from him. He was wonderfully beloved by the undergraduates, because they knew that he cared for them more than for anything else in the world.
Of his writings there is not much, except what you have read, and a long essay on Plato in a book called "Hellenism"—very good. He was beginning to write, and I think would have written well. He was also an excellent speaker and lecturer—Mr. Asquith would tell you about him.
I have received many letters about him—but none of them has touched me as much as yours. Thank you, dear.