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(Misdated 14 May in the Index to the volume.)

(Attribution and identification of original from Wellcome Library catalogue (No. 8781i).)

Barnsley. - With copy of a resolution passed at a public meeting of the Liberals of Monks Bretton and District, expressing regret that 'by the death of Lord Houghton the Barnsley Division is deprived of the services of the Hon. R. O. MIlnes as the LIberal Candidate' and tendering condolences.

Royal Gardens, Kew. - Afraid he cannot accept Quaritch's invitation to the Omar Khayyám club dinner at Henley in July. The editor of the Illustrated London News has written asking for a photograph of the rose [grown from seeds taken from the rose at the tomb of Omar Khayyám]; he has instead sent a sketch by his wife which he thinks 'will do it better justice'. Postscript: next year, the rose will be propagated and planted out in the public part of the Garden.

(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.