Autograph letter signed : Naworth [Castle], to [T.J. Cobden Sanderson], [1864-1869] "Sunday."

Describing a visit from his brother-in-law and parents-in-law; saying "I am in a very bad letter writing mood - and I have been - I cannot say why unless the exceeding fine weather may account for it. Consequently every day we have been [on] expeditions showing the Stanleys about. One glorious day we had on the Eden - miles of woodland sloping down to a broad rocky river. We first took the high walk getting a command of all the reaches together, and then low down by the side - charmed by the murmur - Lyulph and I bathed - I think that there is no positive sensuous pleasure so great as a good bathe in live water - the clear amber embracing one and making one feel divine as when in the old Homeric story some god poured invisible ambrosial essences over the favoured mortal. Lyulph however has gone - and my parents in law go tomorrow. I am sorry as Lady S. is a very loveable woman - I daresay now that the misunderstanding between you has gone. That you have found out how really kind and womanly, without the [illegible] of conventionality, unscathed by a long life in the heart of the worldliest world, she is. She and all of us are very anxious for you not to overwork. I have been reading Ecclesiastes this morning during the Sermon - very good reading too. I recommend it. In much learning is sorrow."