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  My Dear Sir

I apologize heartily for my delay in replying to your kind note of last November enclosing the page of "poemets" 'old age echoes'—which you were so good as to offer me at the price of £20—

My excuse is just that I have been very much away from London this winter & have run into arrears all round (if that be an excuse!)—& secondly my unwillingness to do the unwelcome & ungracious thing implied in my being unable to avail myself of the "Poemets."

I am so extremely sorry not to see my way to utilizing them for my Review & I accordingly return herewith the printed proof of them as you now request—

Yours very faithfully James Knowles