To Edmund Gosse
The Cottage (late the late Miss M’Gregor’s),
Castleton of Braemar, August 10, 1881.
MY DEAR GOSSE,—Come on the 24th, there is a dear fellow. Everybody else wants to come later, and it will be a godsend for, sir—Yours sincerely.
You can stay as long as you behave decently, and are not sick of, sir—Your obedient, humble servant.
We have family worship in the home of, sir—Yours respectfully.
Braemar is a fine country, but nothing to (what you will also see) the maps of, sir—Yours in the Lord.
A carriage and two spanking hacks draw up daily at the hour of two before the house of, sir—Yours truly.
The rain rains and the winds do beat upon the cottage of the late Miss Macgregor and of, sir—Yours affectionately.