_Vailima_, _Samoa_, _July_ 16, 1894.
DEAR MRS. BAKER,—I am very much obliged to you for your letter and the
enclosure from Mr. Skinner. Mr. Skinner says he ‘thinks Mr. Stevenson
must be a very kind man’; he little knows me. But I am very sure of one
thing, that you are a very kind woman. I envy you—my amanuensis being
called away, I continue in my own hand, or what is left of it—unusually
legible, I am thankful to see—I envy you your beautiful choice of an
employment. There must be no regrets at least for a day so spent; and
when the night falls you need ask no blessing on your work.
‘Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of these.’—Yours truly,