MASEFIELD

thanking him for his letter and invitation, he says he has thought it over carefully and have come to the conclusion that I ought not to accept any office in which I cannot be of real use; so please do not count on me... thank you, too, for the cutting, and also for the sympathetic & charming way in which you presided at the reading..., 2 sides 4to., Boar's Hill crossed out and Pinsbury inserted, no date