
Your card of 21st came to hand last evening and I am well pleased that you seem
to jog along about the same in health and strength—I trust now that you will go through the summer
in pretty fair style. I have been at work at the British museum on the Danish piece this & yester day
afternoon—a Danish scholar there reads it for me in English
(literal translation) and I scribble it down with a pencil. In 4 ½ hours work we have done over half
of it.
There is nothing new to report abt. the meter. All goes (apparently) well but I do not expect to accomplish
anything more at present than to pave the way for the establishment of the business later. I have just received
an invitation from Mrs Costelloe to accompany her to the
country (Hazelmere) next Sunday evening. I have gladly accepted as I am most anxious to have my impressions
as to the attitude of the Smiths towards you either confirmed or contradicted. So far I am still persuaded
that what I wrote you the other day (in re Smiths & Costelloes) was & is correct. But I shall refer
to this again when I write you after being in Hazelmere. I may have a chance to call on Tennyson while down there,
we shall see.
What with the meter, the lecture for McGill College Montreal, and the W. W. book I am not getting exactly a holiday but I enjoy it all & am as well as can be—guess the trip will do me all the more good for having something to occupy and interest me while away and keep me from getting homesick! I wrote Horace this morning.
Best love to you R M Bucke
