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26. 8. 16. to acknowledge the account of a bathing mishap:


 * With great relief at noon I found
 * That S. McKenna was not drowned.

Many thanks for the pendant to these lovely verses.

P.S. I note—and we all note—he adds''—that you never express the wish to see us all again. How different from my Malvern letters! Ah, what a terrible thing is sincerity!''