"HOT SPRINGS, BATH CO., VA., _June 25, 1886_.
"MY DEAR GOVERNOR,--I have been offered, and I have
accepted, the use of a special car from here over to New York for
Saturday, July 3d. This, I understand, will get me to the city on
the 4th--always a wearisome day to those who have to pass it there.
May I venture, with Mrs. Manning and our daughter, to call on you at
Greystone, say Monday, the 5th prox.? I do not expect to leave here
before the morning of the 3d.
"My health is mending and improving, and I begin to feel somewhat
like my old self again.
"Do not be much surprised if you see in the papers something like an
interview with me on the Irish Home Rule question.
Faithfully yours,
"DANIEL MANNING."