Autograph letter signed : Lamb House, to Emily Higginson, 1907 Aug. 14.

Expressing his deep fondness for Emily, his memories of her visit and his wish that she will return to England; saying "Yes, you hold your head very high in these parts, & well you may, for you bloom as nothing has ever bloomed, & your fame fills the countryside, & clouds flock to admire, & I feel my swagger about you -- that is about myself -- at any rate about my being 'notoriously your favourite cousin'. I feel it, I say, going father than any of my vanities has ever gone. You 'take' in short at Lamb House, & all over the land, by what I make out...like some splendid [illegible] & I think it would really give you pleasure to see how you look in English air & English earth. How can you do this unless you come out for it?...Therefore make your plans for next summer...I wonder about your ranch -- about you both -- about you all - I think of you as so many -- little girls & houses & lands & horses & dogs & herds of great other beasts, all [illegible] in a great glorious garden, 1/2-buried under your flowers. What a life you must lead & how I hope it thoroughly agrees with you & that George, dearest & best of men, rejoices & thrives...I think of your vast barns & granaries resounding with the neigh & the other mellow music of innumerable beasts, I think of your plantations already nodding in the lakeside breeze, on the vastest scale, I think of your wide hospitable house all redolent of tomato-jelly, & above all, my dear Emily, I focus your glorious garden where no plant is less than ten feet high or has a name in less than ten syllables!...Well, the night wanes, & though I yearn & yearn, it has been for some time tomorrow, & the [illegible] bell makes, in the frosty stillness, a deep warning sound;" concluding with a question about something that is not blooming in his garden.