OLD MEMORIES
190 Marylebone Road, N.W.,
March 20th, 1895.
To Earl of Ducie.
Thank you for the key of the bureau, I shall care much to have the bureau; having been Lady Ducie’s, it will come like a message.
I don’t think you want me to thank you. You feel, and want me to feel, that the gift comes from her; but you know that I do feel your kindness about it all.[[124]]
May 27th, 1895.
To Margaret Shaen on the Playground Festival.
I write just a few words to congratulate you on the thorough success of the day. I thought it went beautifully. Tho’ I saw so little of you, I was conscious thro’out of your being there, and of how much all owed to your being owner and head; but most I was thinking that, for you, as for me, the place was alive with memories. There were to us both Presences plain in the place; and, as Browning says, there were both kinds, those who are to be, and to inherit the world we are trying to make fitter for them, as well as the
“Wonderful dead who have passed