Sunday / Good heavens! to / dream that I scolded / you - what a dream - when I / always try to make everything / as soft & downy & furry / for you as ever I can. and / am nothing but happy in / your company, & love your / stories of beasts, & should / like to champion you a / thousand times oftener than / ? I know the chances of. / Nor would I have / you think I am so decrepid / that I can't see you into / your carriage - or carry a / cloak or do any other / such simple devoir. / - no, that wasn't a dream / it was a nightmare - / but if you want sturdy / champions they would rise / up like the man in Jason's / field if you stamped / your foot. / Phil's party was very nice / & I left & brought him / home ? with the / responsibility of it. / did you see, talking / of Bears - & never let / us meet in this life (or / next, or for the matter / of that, the one afterwards) / without talking of Bears - / did you see that 2 words / brought up yesterday before / a magistrate, & charged with impeding / the traffic, I think in / Cornhill - as if anything / ? on in that fiendish / district was a tithe / & replied in / Pyrannean - which / the silly reporter / called "growling" in my / newspaper - but he was a / fool & didn't know bears / as we do. / and another heaven-tale / about elephants was it / yesterday's news - which / I will cut out & enclose / for I doubt if you see / newspapers - nasty / things they are, newspapers, & I wish they were all / dead./ Rather anxious news / from R.dean - show of / hands not satisfactory either / from the standpoint of / ideal politics or the lower / platform of Messrs Pears - / - so a poll is demanded / by Georgie. & a poll will / have to be. bless her. / and here is the passage / about elephants. - & here / is the story of a True / Champion. [Cutting attached to next page]. / I hope Mary is true - / I don't feel quite comfort- / -able about it - I see only / that Charlie [one of the elephants in the cutting] behaved / very nobly. / and oh it was a pleasure / to do a little tiny thing / for you - & dream's deserve / a "thank you" / alwaysyouraffc. / B-J.
