Letter from Lord Windsor, London, to W. E. Henley, 1898 June 20 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying "Lady Windsor is sending you some fruit which she hopes (in this weather) may be acceptable, and I take the opportunity of writing a line to go with it to tell you how very glad we are to hear that you [are] getting over your severe illness. I hope that you will soon recover entirely, & that it will leave you stronger than before. It was not altogether my fault that I never wrote to thank you for the vol. of English Lyrics. It arrived at St. Fagans after we had left last autumn, & remained there by mistake many months before it came into my hands, & I was ashamed that this had happened. Since then we have been reading the vol. of your own verse, & I have got, I am glad to say, much better acquainted with the contents. I turn to none of the poems with more pleasure than the last of 'Bric-a-brac', and the first of 'Echoes."