Autograph letter signed : Lamb House, to George and Emily Higginson, 1910 Jan. 2.

Expressing his gratitude for their "beautiful and expensive cable -- expensive to you! -- received here, with exquisite felicity exactly at the very Christmas hour for which you had planned it...your sign of remembrance has touched me -- very deeply, I assure you -- with what fidelity I have really (though so brutally -- or superficially, dumb,) kept thinking of you, imagining you, sentimentally clinging to you. I haven't had a very famous year -- but rather a disabled & disqualified or depressed one; but the ills in question I seem really to have been able to handle intelligently enough mainly to shuffle them off & to enjoy now a clearer prospect. It has been an infamous year climatically & pluvially; it has rained -- in a single sustained deluge -- for the hapless twelvemonth on end, & we are all soaked & sodden, mouldy & miserable, in consequence;" adding how much he admires them and the life they are living saying "I see you both in my minds' eye as always magnificent & mighty -- always marshalling your flocks & herds, bounding on your noble stud, sowing & reaping your great acres, trimming your lovely gardens, beaming (as well you may) on your beautiful children... I really want you to know just how he goes on & how the rustic nook in which he peacefully & solitudinously sits still remembers you & talks of you & longs for you again;" relating his plans for the winter with several weeks more in Rye, three or four months in London and then a return to Rye for the summer and autumn;" saying "I practically never travel now, but just change, as you see, from the blue bed to the brown;" telling them that he will begin taking over the subscription to the National Geographic and the membership in the National Geographic Society which they had given him as a gift and which he loves; "The wondrous, the delightful, the thrilling magazine has kept coming...I want to keep on having it for the thrill of the admirable illustrations;" sending his love to them.