The Body Snatchers (scrolled).
In germis
The Travelling Companion.
The Torn Surplice (not final title).
Yours ever,
R. L. S.
to Dr. Alexander Japp
The Cottage, Castleton of Braemar, Sunday, August 1881.
MY DEAR SIR,—I should long ago have written to thank you for your kind and frank letter; but in my state of health papers are apt to get mislaid, and your letter has been vainly hunted for until this (Sunday) morning.
I regret I shall not be able to see you in Edinburgh; one visit to Edinburgh has already cost me too dear in that invaluable particular health; but if it should be at all possible for you to push on as far as Braemar, I believe you would find an attentive listener, and I can offer you a bed, a drive, and necessary food, etc.