Just arrived! – – (mind, the silent writing overflows the page, and laughs at the black words for Mr. Kenyon to read!) – – But your note arrived earlier – – more of that, when I write after this dreadful dispatching-business that falls on me – – friend A. and B. and C. must get their copy, and word of regard, all by next post! – –
Could you think that that untoward letter lived one moment after it returned to me? I burned it and cried ‘serve it right’! Poor letter, – – yet I should have been vexed and offended then to be told I could love you better than I did already. ‘Live and learn!’ Live and love you – – dearest, as loves you
R.B.
You will write to reassure me about Saturday, if not for other reasons. See your corrections . . . and understand that in one or two instances in which they would seem not to be adopted, they are so, by some modification of the previous, or following line . . . as in one of the Sorrento lines . . . about a ‘turret’ – – see! (Can you give me Horne’s address – – I would send then.)