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congratulations by my envy: - and yet
not envy either, for I can't conceive myself
in such a position. I would admire
your luck, for that post, under that MAN
is the post in the whole world for a man
of your age & training, made for real politics
(not Parliamentary rotting) but not trained
for them. I say I would [underlined] admire your luck
but that I know you to be admirably
fitted for your work, & for the splendid
things it will lead to. Don't think I am
flattering when I say that ever since I
knew you I have immensely admired
your varied but unostentatious industry,
your brilliant but unelated progress,
neither unduly depreciating nor unduly
appreciating your own or other people's
achievements. I imagine you are moved
to chuck this into the fire at this point:
but it is exactly true, the tribute to an
effective man of a relegated effective.

Years ago you gave me "Scholar Gypsies",
& I remember chaffingly exacted a promise