Autograph letter signed : Rottingdean, to "dear Friends,", 1883 January 16.

Describing her time near Brighton; regretting not to have seen them when they stopped by and asking them to return when they are there; saying "We find that owing to Brighton, that London-by-the-sea, being so near, a number of our friends kindly come over to call on us when there, but we have seldom been fortunate enough to be able to welcome them. The place would not look strange to you because of Maggie's having been here, and also because you know that if we had been here, how gladly you would have been greeted. Edward had to go back to work but Margaret and I are staying on here a little, for I've been overtired lately, and want to get furbished up a little before facing London again. It was bitterly cold at first, but now is only fresh, with beautiful sunshine. The sight of 'the little gray church on the windy hill' opposite never palls upon me, and there is another still less Church at Ovingdean, to (the outside of) which I often pay a loving pilgrimage. Mud is our great enemy here, and makes walking more fatigue and less pleasure than it would be if one could lightly skim along an inch above the surface of the earth - but perhaps I reveal my cockneyhood by mentioning the subject at all. We hope to go back to the Grange next week, and never shall I cease trying to reach the Temple until I do so - Meanwhile I trust you to believe this. I often think of you, and am always truly / Your affectionate friend."