Letter from W. E. Henley, St. George's Lodge, to Lord Windsor, 1899 August 1 : autograph manuscript signed with initials.

Saying "I hope you won through all right. I suppose you have the habit of these things, & that goes for a great deal, even in a temperature like that we've had to endure of late. The said temperature is all too much for me. I never could stand the heat, & now - at 50 - I find that I ought to have been born a Polar Bear. Things S. African look better than they did when you wrote to me. The Premier's speech has done great things for the [illegible]. Why the government should ever have seemed to funk it's duty I know not; for, believe me, Majuba Hill is bitterly remembered & resented. At the back of Omdurman was the ghost of Gordon : that is why Kitchener was, & is, a popular hero. The man who wiped out the shame of Majuba Hill would 'put Kitchener to bed' - simply. We have never forgot that time, & forget it we never shall. I hope that MacLaren Cobban will get his show. If he do not, I shall be sorry indeed. But if he do not, I shall know that it was by no fault of yours, but simply, that the Gods wished otherwise. I would I could struggle to town! For an hour here, & thirty minutes there, & the like! But I can't; & meanwhile I rejoice in my 13 hours of bright sunshine daily, & in the fact that Worthing, having no Duke of Devonshire is (unlike Eastbourne) a place where we can rest."