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mention it when next we
meet, & I shall be grateful,
for disagreement often brings
new light.

I can hardly expect that you
will enjoy my effort as much
as I have enjoyed some
of your works. The first I
came across was a story in
Blackwood called 'The
Lemnian' many years
ago, & I jumped for joy,
for I saw at once it was
'my kind of the picturesque'
and I was pleased to find
that a writer I knew, now
dead, had spotted it too,
when we met a few days
later. I may add that
I rather fancy my own
powers of spotting anything
good in the way of books,
and painting. That is a brag,
but you told me that Fellows
of King's were distinguished
& intellectual arrogance &
will not be surprised.

Yours sincerely

F.R. Earp

P.S. If the name of a
good fishing river in Scotland
should occur to you, & you
put it on a post-card,
it would be a noble act. I
don't mind going fairly
far North.