MS location unknown. This fragment printed in Dulce Domum, 207.
Anne and I were pleased to have a sight of Emily; there is more change in the latter than in the former in the fourteen years since they met.1 I hope you will not have to part with the Chester division2 of the family much before Christmas. Perhaps if you do not join them there very soon after they go, you would let me come to you for a little while. . . I am not afraid of solitary days; after all, it is all well . . .