
I am making all arrangements to leave here on the afternoon of Sunday 5th July for New York en route
for England. I should like well to see you before sailing but do not see how I well can as I cannot well leave here before Sunday
5th, must have a while in N.Y. to see Dane re meter matters in America and the
boat sails 7 a.m. wednesday.
I hope to see something of the Smiths in England as well as the Costelloes and shall makefull reports of
all W.W. matters.
Hope, too, to see Wallace, Johnston & the Bolton folks. If you would give me
a line to Tennyson I would try
and see him too just for a short call—it would be something to look back upon when I am (if I live
to be) an old, old fellow.—
We had a splendid rain yesterday and I have never seen a more perfect day than this is after it. Temperature (in my office) 70° sky deep blue, not a cloud, a gentle breeze waving the trees and shrubs, all the grounds bright and fragrant with roses and syringas: it seems a sin to leave here and I believe I would fully as soon stay but business (especially meter business) must be attended to
Best love to you R M Bucke
