To Admiral Maxse. Box Hill, March 19, 1882. My dear Fred, The news of the Governor is not so good as I had hoped, but often the changes are surprising, and health seems given from the hand, after a painful dragging on for weeks. I suppose things to be well with Olive. Your pen-sketches of scenery and the picture forwarded toM ariette give me a breath of the Riviera. But here also we have had Midsummer in March. Day upon day a cloudless heaven, strong sun-heat, flowers profuse, leaves bursting a return of the bell eta doro. At present I count five months of predominating S.W. wind. I have known winters as mild, but never followed by so soft aS pring. (I nterrupted by the call of a cleric, an amiable and a Liberal, who informed me in the course of the conversation that he had recently been entertaining a pure agnostic. In reply I informed him that I should find it hard to hit on a friend of mine who was not a pure agnostic. He took it mildly.) Morison was here onS aturday, did not sleep here, as he has to finish his Macaulay for theS eries.1 He spoke of you, strongly appreciating you. He gave me a bad bit of news ofF rederic Harrison sbrother thrown from his horse in the park and now lying inS t. George sH ospital, paralysed all but two fingers :case apparently hopeless, and meanwhile his little girl has died of diphtheria. Nothing advances in the House of Commons. I am of opinion that Gladstone, whatever the outlook for the 1E nglish Men of Letters. VOL. II.
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