Autograph letter signed : London, to William Angus Knight, 1904 January 27.

Thanking him for his letter "...so full of true friendship. Thank you many times over. It was indeed a memorable evening in a man's life. It summed up a whole world of kindness we both received, my wife & I, during a long space of years, but with a warmth & wealth of affection that took me completely by surprise. A.J.B. [Arthur James Balfour] - I need not say - fascinated every one by his charm & humour & felicity of expression - in fact by his own personality - Yet all the time (you are quite right in divining it) I was aware that the one presence was missing, which I desired - & that in spite of all my gains I had lost my all. Just at present I am remaining very quietly at home. Great numbers of letters have been pouring in on me from Scotland; they take up many hours of the day; but besides, I am engaged to give some lectures at Harvard in March & they are still unwritten. I am trying to get under weigh with them & a little alarmed lest I may fail to have them ready. So I am not even going to the Club, except on rare occasions. But I must look in at luncheon some day in the hope of meeting you. What a wonderful peregrination you have had! And I trust it has done much to invigorate you. I stayed with Mrs. Sellar in Edinburgh. No one approaches to her, in all her gifts of sympathy, intellect & friendship."