Autograph letter signed : "Norelands, near Thomastown", to [William Hale] Savile, 1886 Mar. 18.

Expressing pleasure at receiving his letter and the news of his forthcoming marriage; saying "The new atmosphere in which you breathe will I am sure fulfil your life with both power and peace - new abilities, broader scope for them. And I should think marriage, being the endless sacrifice of the simple to the twofold life, is the nobler field for our work of self-perfection in others and in God. My answer to your kind letter comes late, because yours had to be forwarded from Oxford to this solitary Irish country place, where the hills are thick with woods and the streams with trout, but where the postmen are few and far between. I have much pleasure in sending you 'Savonarola' but not much pride, for I am as keenly alive to his (i.e. its) great faults. I think, as the most scathing critic could be. Nevertheless you will, I know, be kind enough to read it slowly and carefully for my sake;" adding, in a postscript above the salutation "I have but three or four copies & am afraid I must ask you to return the one I send: and I afterward will give you another & a cleaner. And that you will most strictly prevent anybody whatever, except yourself & [illegible] from seeing it while with you."