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Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland. - Apologises that a bureau that should have been sent by Bob and Bessie by rail [see 14/39] is still in his room at Cambridge; blames 'dear old Mrs Larkins who is an awful goose' but says it is being sent today. Asks Bob to tell him when it arrives and return his maps then. Hopes he had 'a fine time' for the drive down to Grasmere. Is reading the second volume of "Stones of Venice" - he 'always read[s] Ruskin while... writing to prevent falling into Macaulayese' - and thinks it is his best 'as far as prose style goes'; 'the proportion of bunkum is also smaller'. Sends love to Bessie, and apologises again about the bureau: 'settling in to a house should be done as a whole and not in dribblets'.