MS Mrs Caroline Fairclough/23

My dear Arthur
I shall put your corrections in, I always had I confess believed that Bombastes was in Hudibras, but I ought not to have done so, as I never read it.

As to the Rod being a Celtic word, I did not make away with that because I thought it was curious that the sound should suggest the same idea independently or perhaps by some lingering of the root in the old Italian dialects.

But I really believed in both Brag and the bambyx, and I am very sorry I was all wrong.

Thank you
yours very sincerely
C M Yonge