HUNT

apologising for his date reply to his invitation to a banquet in commemoration of Shakespeare. I have caught a bad cold and the doctors have had me in hand and still prevent me from regarding myself as a free agent, or I should... have hastened to say how proud I should be to accept it. As it is I fear that the uncertainty about my condition would make it wrong for me to engage a place on an occasion when so many will desire to be present, but if in the course of a few days my physician's better assurances are confirmed I will write again to learn whether there is any possibility of coming in to fill a chair that chance may leave vacant for I should be sorry to give up the hope altogether till the last arrangements are concluded by the Urban Club for the forthcoming anniversary of our grandest Englishman...., 2 sides 8vo., Draycott Lodge, 8th April