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  My Dear Old Friend,

My warmest thanks to you for your kindness in sending us news of you by your p.c. of May 5th which I received on May 14th.

We were grieved to hear of your condition being "bad all around" in spite of which however you had been out the previous day.

We still keep hoping that you will get a permanent turn for the better & we must not   be disheartened by the reports about & from you but keep on hoping that somehow things will come right with you.

You have our warmest sympathy in your prostration & depression & our thoughts are often & often with you, especially now that your birthday is drawing so near when you will receive so many expressions of sympathy & messages of good cheer from your friends all over the world.

We had a pleasant little College meeting at Wentworth Dixon's last night when J.W.W in your name & ours presented him   with the pocket L. of G. on which you had so kindly inscribed his name & on which some of us also inscribed ours.

In his little speech J.W.W. made a comparison between the essential teachings of L. of G. & of Epictetus—the stoics are favourite studies of W.D's—& shewed how L of G not only tallied all the cardinal doctrines of stoic philosophy but transcended them.

The weather here today has been extraordinary even for an English May, alternating between brilliant sunshine & showers of snow—May wedded to Decr literally—& as I write this the air is thick with the   s[torn-away]ging, dancing snowflakes where a few minutes ago the sunshine gleamed from the street cars.

We thank you for your loving benediction & for yr kind promise to send us the photo: you speak of.

All good be with you, my dearest & best of friends & His Peace be yours!

We shall be anxious till we hear some news about you.

With kindest regards to all your household & with best love to yourself

I remain Yours affectly J. Johnston

P.S. We send you the Review of Reviews & Black & White

P.P.S. I have just read a nice letter from Edward Carpenter in wh: he speaks of yr old friends Mr & Mrs Lay.