1 Thou ?wert right & not right about the article. I should not have
2mentioned unreadable ^a^ friend’s name. I’ve tried three times to
3write of Englands Ideal & I found I couldn’t. There seems to me
4something immodest in praising your own work, & I so entirely
5appropriate my friends’ writings that I can never write of them.
6However I lent Mrs Wilson the Ethic of Free thought which she had not
7seen, & pointed out to her the great value of it &c his & how Mrs
8Caird had simple built up on his ideas. I quite agree with all she
9says. She is now at Lugano ordered there by the Doctor. I have written
10to ask her to come on here if she can for a few days, that I may love
11her a little.
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13 I hope ^unreadable^ George is better. It must have been nice to be with
14him when he was not well, & take care of him.
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16 Good bye.
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18 I think I am conquering. Things look very grey, even the sky & sea
19don’t seem as bright coloured as they used to be last year, but
20every thing is very peace-ful ^& I am happy.^ I saw at Mrs Casey’s a
21portrait of a young man, & then I realized or rather saw, what I had
22long known; how the older man is a residue left after much struggling,
23not simply a thing so born.
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25 My dear little Alice is working hard. I have got her to resolve to be
26a doctor. I am going to try to get her out here in the spring. You
27never saw the best of her. Isn’t Ellis’s Ibsen ^?vol^ splendid!
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29 I heard before I left England that Mr Pearson had been dangerously ill
30with bronchitis on the continent; & three people who saw him after his
31return said he looked ill & pale, & had a cough. If it should chance
32that you hear anything of his health you might let me know but don’t
33trouble about it?
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35 O.S.
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37 ^I may be going to Mentone in a couple of months time, but I fancy
38it’s not easy to live so cheaply there as here is.^
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