Pièce 98 - Letter from A. W. Verrall to W. W. Greg

5 Selwyn Gardens, Cambridge.—Thanks him for a copy of his Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama.

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5 Selwyn Gardens, Cambridge
June 15—1906

My dear Greg,

Never was any one more terribly in arrear that I am with my acknowledgement and thanks for your very kind gift of the ‘Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama’. In a moment of weakness I thought I would write when I had read it through, and having begun upon it instantly, I expected to reach this consummation in a short time. But the necessity of preparing for term, lectures, etc made me lay it aside, and then came term itself, and the result is that my ‘short time’ is now nearly 3 months! Well, I hope you will believe nevertheless that I have greatly admired your learning, and shall go over the ground again, now that vacation has at last arrived—this very day I was released from College work—with increased profit, I am sure. Many of your little problems are quite out of my range of criticism, but I can appreciate the general discussion, and the subject is curiously interesting. I have to thank you also for your kind reference to my ‘Four Essays’.—I am quite alone at present, Mrs Verrall and my daughter having gone to Switzerland for a month or so. You probably know that I have become and continue to be very lame. But luckily I am able to carry on my work. Are you likely to be visiting Cambridge any time this summer? Until August my engagements are such that I can hardly count on being here at any given time. But in early August we shall certainly be settled for a time. Perhaps you could run down for a night.

Yours very truly
A W Verrall