TENNIEL

sending a thousand apologies for the delay... sending best wishes for this 'New Year' and the years to come. It was, indeed! - a great happiness to me to receive a little 'Christmas Greeting' from you and I thank you... but why you should suppose that I have already arrived at the stage of 'second childishness' which delights in toys! - and which the 'picture-post card' so picturesquely suggests! altogether passes my feeble imagination to discover, seeing that I am only just about completing my 84th year!!! Some weak minded person might possibly take it - Sarcastic? I am 'not such a sickly creature I give heaven praise', and even venture to hope that 'tho' lost to sight' - I may be, not entirely forgotten..., 2 sides 8vo., 10 Portsdown Road, Maida Hill, 5th January