[A] Later!!!! Latest. Don't rejoin!--_don't!_
_To Mrs. A. F. de Navarro._
The "priceless volume" was an album belonging to Mrs. de Navarro
(Miss Mary Anderson), in which she had asked H. J. to inscribe some
words. His contribution, given below, recalls a memory of Miss
Anderson before she left the stage.
Lamb House, Rye.
Oct. 13: 1899.
Dearest, greatest lady,
I've filled a page, with my horrid hieroglyphics, in the priceless
volume--and my characters are the more unsightly for having to be
squeezed in--for I found that to point my little moral I had to take
more than 20 words. Forgive their sad futility. I hope I understood you
right--that I was to do it _opposite_ Watts--I obeyed your law to what I
supposed to be the letter. If I'm not quite correct, I can assure you
that it will be the only time I shall ever break it! Yours and Tony's
very constantly,