1 / July 27: /89 My darling, / I packed up the / book and sent it off to / you by the early post, / but had not time to / write by it. I forget / which of the paper / backed vols: you / have - would you tell / me when you write. / The inscription in / "Plain Tales" was (of / course) written / by Edward, who found / the book about last Sum- / mer. It happened to be / a copy I had first got / for myself! / I thought your / note sounded very lan- / guid, my dear, and am / glad you are to stay / for another week or / two by the sea. I hope / you have not to ad- / dress your constituents, / or open bazaars, or "take / an interest" in anything. / I am drawing too near / to the end of Fitzgerald's / letters - it is a most de- / lightful book, to my mind. / I was the "American / friend" in whose hands / Ruskin's note to him lay / for 10 years! Not through / negligence, thankyou, but / because we did not know / to whom to deliver it / - as soon as Norton / found who was the trans- / lator of Omar Khayyam / and told us, I gave it to / him. Ruskin had given it into / our care, in case we ever / learnt the name - and the / note lay in the top of my / dressing case all those years. / Your father and Pamela / took tea with Margaret yes- / terday. I hope I am going / to poor dear Clouds on / the 12th till the 16th of / next month. / Get strong, soon, dar- / ling. And I am always / as ever / Your loving friend / Georgie