II Aug : 2nd : /89 See what I have done, / through sheer stupidity! / I sent you "Plain Tales / from the Hills" by return / of post, when I had your / letter, my dear, and then / wrote the enclosed note - / BUT / addressed them both to / Lowestoft, so that you / must have thought me / "asleep, or pursuing" or / very remote! / My darling, I am so / sorry - but I have written / at once to the post master / at Lowestoft, to ask him / if the book is there either / to send it back to me / or on to you - so I / hope you will yet have / it to amuse your ?- / ing time. - And tomorrow is your / birthday - many loves and / loving wishes for it - I / am glad to be helped to / write to you for it by this / returned letter - the truth / is I've been reading all / Fitzgerald's letter under / the impression that you were / at Lowestoft and quite / on his traces. / In haste, ever, / Your very loving friend / Georgie