Lymington/ Aug 5 My dear Ned Nothing has done me / so much good this long / time as your note. / I thought of you / yesterday & many a day / & said of you to myself / what you say of me. / I did write - & I / did enquire - have / only been in London for a / few days at a time / & those times everything / kept me away except / want of wish to see you / Often I look up at / the square window / in K High St here / & wish you were behind it. / Will you come again / - do come again / (I don't mean to K same house.) / you shall see new places / & an old friend - if / as proofing by times yet / lovinger than ever / for he has really been / very lonely & longing - / why should anybody care / about him - he was / sure nobody did. / Say you will come / & when - I'll make / ? arrangements / Kindest regards to / your wife & babies / from your affectionate / WA