
Freshwater,
Isle of Wight. Dear old man,
I the elder old man have received your Article in the Critic, & send you in return my thanks & New-Year's greeting on the wings of this East-wind, which, I trust, is blowing softlier & warmlier on your good gray head than here, where it is rocking the elms & ilexes of my Isle of Wight garden.
Yours always Tennyson Jany. 15th 1887