Letter from Frederick Greenwood, place not specified, to Kate Greenwood, 1881 May 20 : autograph manuscript signed.

Urging them to stay longer in the countryside for Jessie's health, particularly if the weather is good, and insisting that she go to see Dr. (Richard) Quain again; remarking that he would be "glad to hear that" that she had sent Mrs. Lathbury some flowers, remarking that she must be worried at "her Dan's losing his fixed employment"and adding that Mr. Lathbury has been urging him to launch a new paper, although there is "not much chance for it", mentioning a trip he recently took to the country and noting that he gets "very knocked from time to time"; describing Mr. Grant Allen as "a smallish, fair, feeble looking man of about 35", stating that he received a letter from (Sir Evelyn) Wood the other day expressing his gratitude for an article Greenwood "wrote in his favour" and stating that Wood had "recommended fighting" but felt he must do directed (a reference to Wood's 1881 negotiations for peace in South Africa which ended the first Boer War); writing that Mrs. Whitman sent him a prospectus for a new company which he does not regard as "a very promising undertaking"; informing her that all is well at home and that the Hedghog "is reported very amicable & lively but not much of a match for the beetles" and that he is sending her novel he thought she would like.