
It is a long time since I have heard from you or word of you: though I have had one short note from Ernest Rhys, it is true, who spoke of you; & of your being somewhat under the weather.
We all liked your brief letter about the President—& our Friend—Mr. Forman spoke of it the other evening as "very nice."
It seemed to me to eminate from someone who felt pretty brisk.
You find E. Rhys a good fellow—I am heartily glad he is getting on so well in the States—at least he seems to be entering into the fun of a winter there.
Last Friday evening I created a chalk & charcoal portrait of Buxton Forman: he was delightful with it & so was his wife, for whom it was a birthday present. He has a good characteristic head and I enjoyed making it very much.
Once a week H.B. Forman is Clerk-in-Waiting at the General Post Office & on those evenings in comfortable office lit with electric light I made the portrait.
I am in the evening now planning out this large reception w 33 friends to see your portrait, that I spoke of in my last letter.


If any names & addresses of friends occur to you, that you would like me to ask, send them in your next. I have already got a good many of your friends' addresses but the last batch of subscribers through the Pall Mall Gazette I have not got. Mrs. Rosamund Powell (a friend of L. Morgan Brown's) sends (£3) through me in this letter her annual subscription (free will offering) to you. Let me know if you get this all-right?
Give my kind rememberances to Morse, when you are writing, I expect to show his bust along with my others works at this reception in April.
Carpenter is well.
Mont S. has been very ill as you must have heard.
With kind love Herbert GilchristPS. I am going to Lincoln tomorrow morning to paint a portrait.
