Autograph letter signed : Lamb House, to George and Emily Higginson, 1907 Jan. 11.

Talking of aging and the passage of time; apologizing for the length of his silence after receiving their gift but adding "I deeply rejoiced to get it, & there was a rare thrill in being put in such strangely immediate relation with far & fabulous Winnetka -- yet as out of my present picture as if I had been there once but in a balloon or a hascheesh vision!" saying he wanted to wait until he was able to write rather than cable immediately but "the letter has had to wait these too many days & who know [sic] if you won't in consequence find its 'gold' but nickel? There is no doubt, any rate, that your two remarkably handsome figures live for me now across the great sea & the great land with her brightness of the most precious of metals, & that memory of your last summer's presence in England in the long beautiful summer days is all bathed now in the true golden air -- with whatever unspeakable sadness at the same time, of that look of the closed romance. We'll open it again still somewhere else, but never in that particular happy & lucky place -- so I put away your pale pink 'cable' after the fashion of a delicate faded flower, between the leaves of the volume!...It is very late this midwinters night, & I write you, under the lamp, by the expiring embers while little huddled redroofed Rye, sleeps with its blankets up to its nose...At my age, as you'll see one of these years, the weeks & the months pass like the telegraph-posts at a car-window and this being so, it is quite as easy for time to pass in one place as another;" adding that he hopes they "remember that afternoon at gentle Hythe? Ah, I mustn't ask -- but only be sure you do & that you both believe how tenderly & gratefully I am always yours..."