Aug :8 : 1899 Dearest Aunt Sophie, How kind of you / to send me those precious notes - / thankyou so much. They are very / affecting to read, and recall the / time as one does it. / I have copied them for your reference / so as to be able to return them to / you at once, as you are just / leaving England - I don't like to / run the risk of a longer / journey for them. You will / let me use them, or parts / of them, won't you, if I shall / need? And you recall / what book of Ned's / drawings it is that / he ?? Also did he want / to add a drawing of his own? / It is all so enthrallingly inter- / esting to me. / Oh dear one, time has not stood still with me at all, / but has eaten me up together / with everything else. But those / days were so beautiful & the / people I knew were so dear, / that I long to record something / of them before I die. / Love to you and your / kind daughter. Always / Your loving Georgie