Additional Manuscripts c

Thanks her for her letter of 12 September. Regrets to say that he has been in the habit of destroying letters. States, however, that he has usually kept one from each friend, and adds that he has one written by J.J. Cowell. Sends one to NS [not included]. Undertakes to send more if and when he comes across them, but explains that in cleaning out his rooms in Calcutta he used to destroy letters. States that he walked about too much in the hot weather in the Isle of Wight, and has not fully recovered. Regrets that he did not pay a third visit 'to that place near the Langham. States that he may be able to recall facts about HS' early life, and adds that Bernard was also with him at Bishop's College. Claims that then [HS] was 'as good in mathematics as in classics.' States that his wife sends her love, and hopes that some day NS will be able to go and see them. Declares that Annie Latham has often talked to him of Fontainebleau. Adds that he still possesses the Hippolytes that HS and he read together 'at that house in Redland', and recalls that they 'all used to play in a sort of alley with trees behind it, Bernard, Lawrence, W. Sidgwick and Arthur S.'