
Just a few lines to acknowledge the rect, by last mail, of your kind p.c & letter containing slip of Sloane Kennedy's article in the Conservator about you.
My best thanks to you for all & for your loving benediction & "heart full of good wishes & affectionate regards" to JWW & myself.
The same mail brought me a good letter from Warry &
J.W.W received one from H.L.T both of which were cordially welcomed on
a/c of the details concerning yourself which they contained. H.L.T's we are proud
to have not only for these but for the renewed expression of your love for us &
for this I desire to send you my warmest thanks & I should like you to convey my
gratitude to him for his dear good letter.
I hear too that J.W.W has also received a paper with the S.K. article from you. A letter, post card, & slip from you, a paper & slip from you, a letter from H.L.T. & a letter from Warry all by one mail! What a jubilee we've had this week!

I believe it is JWWs intention to write to JA Symonds next week & to send him copies of HLT's & Warry's letters so as to put him au courant with the latest first hand news concerning you
S.K's article is extremely interesting & valuable from the side light it throws upon your character and personality.
In this week's Literary World there is a long notice of an Italian book on Holland & as I thought the extracts given might interest you I send you the paper in which you will also see that a new poem by Tennyson is announced
We are looking forward with pleasure to seeing the March no of Lippincott which by the way is published in England as well as America I
believe.
I much regret to hear that your health continues so unsatisfactory & I fear that this long continued spell of illness may tell even upon your mastery & indomitable spirit. Of my sympathy you are already assured & what can I say but renew the expression of my personal affection & reverence for you & send you a "heart full of good wishes" & hopes for the dawning of brighter days for you. May God grant that it may be so is my heart felt prayer. But as you say—"it will be all right either way."
We have had remarkably fine weather here lately—frosty nights & foggy mornings followed by days of brilliant sunshine—& today I read of a butterfly having been seen—a harbinger of the coming spring.
With kindest regards to all the members of your household & with fondest heart love to yourself
I remain Yours affectionately J Johnston
