Autograph letter signed : "Lamb House", to Dr. Baldwin, 1898 Aug. 23.

Thanking him for his letter and expressing his "great relief...so abruptly broken off was my glimpse of you in London - I fled down here a day or two later & so merely reduced was I to wondering where or how you were. I came down here to pressing complications (of making up lost work & getting - all by myself - this house into habitable order) but each day I wished to write to you & say: 'Can't you come for an afternoon & night?' But between my frenzy of preoccupation & my utter loss of your London address in the confusion of my move, the days went by; & by that time I had a moral certainty that you wd. have left England. I didn't believe in Felixstowe or its power to retain you, & I was immensely eased off on hearing from Mme. Bourget a couple of days since that they had found you at Nauheim apparently the better for your cure. Your own confirmation of this is all I could desire, for you put it with superlative strength. I am delighted - though I tremble when you talk of a future of Rome - with all the traps that Rome may set for you. However, one will be better able, I think, to pull you up now. You ought to have been photographed as you were at your worst - to have it before you as a kind of 'red- or, better still, white - spectre. Very wonderful to see your present dash across the beastly brine & your oscillation between Great Bend & the eternal city. Truly, your life is of many pieces. When you bring your boys to England I shall still be here, & you must then, without fail, make me a sign & come down to me for a night. I shall stick to this late into the autumn - in fact I want to let De Vere Gardens, furnished, for the winter & spring, stay here till Xmas & then go straight to Italy - also to Rome. It depends a little - but not altogether on my finding a tenant for my London apartment. Try & find one for me on the Susquehannah. I hope your wife is in health & heart, & I send her the friendliest remembrance. I rejoice you have found an English school though I know its not with infinite jubilation at your being at last again in the light, & am yours constantly..;" adding, in a postscript, "(Forgive the stupidity of the accidentally skipped page.)