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Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Encloses a cutting from the American "Nation", with a letter about [Rabindranath] Tagore, and a poem by Lord Crewe which is 'about as good as his father would have written'. The poem reminds Sir George of the 'very pretty memoir' by Lord Ribblesdale about his son [Charles] Lister [who died of wounds sustained at Gallipolli] which has recently been published. Thinks the long article on Emerson in this week's "[Times] Literary Supplement" is by the same writer as the one on Keats; strange to see how the author in both cases 'admires and loves' quite different things to those he does himself. Most interested in Robert having known 'Jones Festing' [sic: Henry Festing Jones], and will want to talk to him. Now Robert knows 'all about it', can say that Mr [Arthur] Fifield told him the same about what seems to be now the only surviving sister of Samuel Butler.

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Thanks Robert for [Herbert Macartney] Beatty's letter; the last letter of this 'extraordinary correspondence' appears in yesterday's "[Times] Literary Supplement" [January 18, 1917; pg. 34; Issue 783], and he asks Robert to cut this out and send it; [John] Timbs must have been 'an awful impostor', and Sir George has never heard of him before. Thinks the long first article on Keats will interest Robert. Praises the "Supplement". Wrote to [A. C.] Fifield to ask when Sam Butler's "Memoirs" were coming out as he is 'getting old, and anxious to see them'; Fifield wrote a nice letter back, telling him 'the reason why they cannot appear yet'.