Letter from Leslie Stephen, London, to W. E. Henley, 1877 November 10 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying "I send you an order for FitzGerald - I know nothing of the other novelists you mention - such is my ignorance! I thought your Barrow good as indeed I almost always like your literary work. I have thought once or twice of writing about him : but I don't know that I could say more than you have said. His religious notions are not, I think, much worth discussing or even disturbing. But I will some day refresh my memory. Meanwhile keep him as long as you like & don't tell him. I am generally pretty busy & therefore I fear apt to be neglectful of visitors. It always seems to me absurd that any body should want to stir up such a recluse - Just now, I am specially distracted, because my sister who ought to be living with me, is ill & I have to go & see her every day at some distance. But certainly come & see me sometimes if you care to see me. The time at wh. I am least occupied is from 5 to 6.30. It will be pleasant to me to have an occasional chat."