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(This letter has been placed among letters of the wrong year.)

(Dated Saturday. Probably written about the same time as O.13.1, No. 111.)

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Saturday.

My Dear Sir!

Your letter is manly & friendly, like yourself. I take your confidence as a high compliment, & I trust you consider’d my application in some such way. I must do the best I can; but we will never talk of so unpleasant a subject, about w[hic]h I thank you as much as if you c[oul]d have serv’d me. Your heart w[oul]d bleed for me, did you know my situation & how I have been us’d. The man I paint at the end of my Poem was (God knows!) an example of happiness, compar’d with me. But, never mind.

I will come & sit with you, & be apparently as merry as usual, any evening you send me word you are at leisure after so long absence; & I will always be,

My Dear Sir,
your grateful & affect[iona]te friend
H[erber]t Croft.

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Letters omitted from words abbreviated by superscript letters have been supplied in square brackets.

Letter written on 2, 3, 4, 13 and 14 September. Sent back to his family via Sir R. H. Inglis.

Resolution expressing the Committee's regret at the death of Lord Houghton. Originally enclosed with John Trevarthan's letter to the 2nd Lord Houghton of 21 Aug. 1885 [now HOUG/AA/2/No. 112].

19 Carleton Road, Tufnell Park, N. - Thanks Quaritch for leaving FitzGerald's letters, which he now returns; has 'made two copies of the two letters to stick in my copy of "Rubáiyát, published by you'. Egerton Castle