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 In his next letter, 14. 8. 20, he returns to the same subject:

''Your letter pretty well convinces me, at any rate about the Coningsby novel. Dizzy never wrote about the period in which he was just then living. All his novels are antedated a good many years. This by way of defending him against any idea that he ever offended by betraying private or official secrets in his novels''

One of Teixeira's last letters (19. 8. 20) from Crowborough contained a translation of the terms (already quoted) in which Couperus congratulated him on his version of The Tour: Couperus writes:  "Your last envoi has given me a most delightful day. What a magnificent translation. The Tour is; what a most charming little book it has become! I am in raptures over it and read and reread it all day and have had tears in my eyes and have laughed over it. You may think it silly of me to say all this; but it has become an exquisitely beautiful work in its English form. My warmest congratulations!

"Thank McKenna for his assistance: the hymn has become very fine. For that matter the