Smith, Logan Pearsall, 1865-1946

"One must be thankful that Jane's accident was not worse, though it seems to have been bad enough. I hope she will soon recover from her shaking and bruises..."

"Many thanks for your note; I am especially glad that you should have liked my Shakespeare essay.I am beginning to believe that it must be better than I thought it- I was very doubtful..."

"Now that you are coming to London no doubt many grabs are being made at you to get you on various committees[?]..."

"I wrote to the formidable Sisarn[?] about the S.P.E. He doubts whether you would be able to attend our meetings, being so busy, but if you can (they are only once in 12 or 18 months)..."

"Thank you for your note. I am glad you liked my letter in Monday's T[?], and hope that you have seen the one printed yesterday. I have just had a letter from an electrical engineer..."

"I understand from A[?] that you very kindly mean to meet f[?] Abercrombie and myself on Monday at Oxford at 12:40 and take us on to the S.P.E. meeting..."

"It was very pleasant to hear from you, and I do hope I shall see you before long. Vous one marquez, as I wrote to Jean- not only for the pleasure of your s[?] (thought that is great) but for a more selfish reason..."

"Thanks for your note. I died in Iceland back in August, and had the pleasure of needing my [?]. But I use something from my death bed..."

"You must afford to help me in getting a water-[?] by Steer to give to Bruce Rich..."

"Thank you for your letter. Since so many of my older friends have played on me the dirty trick of dying (and death certainly is the dirtiest trick one can play) [...] there reamin very few people whose approval I care for very much..."