GOMME

saying he was very glad to receive the approval of so eminent an antiquary as yourself to my letter in the Athenaeum... Of course the great need is co-operation under the lead of some powerful fellow [of the Society of Antiquaries]. Letters to the President or Council get a polite acknowledgment and are then forgotten and the great body of the fellows know nothing of it, envisaging some plan... to show the council... that the old hum-drum must give way to proper activity, 2 Park Villas, Lonsdale Road, Barnes, 14th October