Autograph letter signed : London, to George Higginson, 1894 Nov. 5.

Apologizing for his delay in replying to his letter and thanking him for the photograph of his wife and child; saying "There are times when, from the mere force of hostile circumstances, my correspondence goes utterly to pieces & I have to be patient & to ask for patience, while I dress its wounds & repair its gaps & set it on its feet again;" congratulating him on the "charm of your wife & the apparently commanding intelligence of Roger Griswold [Higginson]; commenting on Higginson's description of the Chicago World's Fair saying "Your roaring Chicago seems very far away from me, & what I hear of its wonders make it seem further still - the exhibition must have been, for you residents, a rather fierce ordeal...To me such things are things of dread & such places of despair. Colossal size & colossal numbers or colossal crowds make me long to fly to the desert. London is too big & one's constant battles with its dimensions of all kinds, leaves one, I suppose, prejudiced in favour of something shy(?) & shrunken;" adding that he spent a few days in the country with his old friend Frank Millet "& his innumerable photographs & illustrations, as well as what he told me, gave me a huge idea of the beauty of much of your show - I am glad - very - that you are occupied & happy. The latter condition, is I think, essentially dependent on the former;" expressing his hope that he will "knock again at my door..."