Autograph letter signed : London, to Dr. Baldwin, 1898 May 29.

Expressing his sadness at hearing of his "new trouble & can only think of you in it with the tenderest sympathy. Alas, alas, - all the more that I don't understand the nature of your so strange & rare complaint - can only gather that it has been a woeful & with your anxieties & fatigues on top of it, an all but mortal thing for you. Unless, my dear Baldwin, it is really what old-fashioned people call a blessing in disguise - the thing to make you, under pain of death - that is under penalty of death by pain - take at last the real time of rest that nothing else has ever [illegible] from you. Even now I fear I shall believe in your resting only when I see it. If I can see it I shall see it with joy. I'm, in other words, almost resigned to knowing you have something the matter with you the issue from which does depend definitely on yourself. For God's sake, face the situation. I shall be delighted to behold you here. I leave town sometime in June - for Lamb House, Rye : that is my country address. I fear I shan't get away before the 20th. I am too busy, too poor & too - many other things, to travel. Going to Italy is, for the present, a pure luxury... which I cannot afford. I need - woe is me - to concentrate. Well, come & concentrate with me. Come down & see me at Rye - I can always give you a bed & a beefsteak. But you say nothing of when. Do give me more news...I don't speak to you either of the miserable Milan or of the horrid Cuba. Basta cosi. But I affectionately embrace you & am ever, my dear Baldwin, constantly & tenderly yours..."