nicely. He has had a commission to make some designs for a new kind of painted tapestry--and his figures "Audrey & Touchstone" are very much admired & have been bought by a rich American, & he has a commission for more. But the summer work he has set his heart upon is a portrait of you from all the material he brought with him--the many attempts he made there--handled with his present improved skill with the brush. I hope you will be able by & bye to send him the photograph he asked for--but no hurry. Edward Carpenter came up from Sheffield and spent an evening with us--which we all heartily enjoyed--he is a dear fellow. We talked much of you. He has been giving lectures this winter on the Lives of the Great Discoverers in Science. Carpenter knows intimately, goes freely among, a greater range & variety of men than any Englishman I know--he has a way of making himself thoroughly welcome by the firesides of mechanics & factory workers--his own kith & kin are aristocratic. Giddy is taking singing lessons again, & hoping by the time you next see her to be able to contribute her share of the evening's pleasure. Percy is still working away indomitably at the "process," which is gaining ground rapidly on the continent, & I hope I may say slowly & surely in England. I see the Gilders now & then--indeed they are coming up to lunch with us to-morrow--Mr. Gilder[34] is the better for rest--& they seem to enjoy England; but England has done her very worst in the way of climate ever since they have been here. O I do long for a little American sunshine. We met Henry James at the Conways last Sunday & found him one of the pleasantest of talkers. Rossetti & all your friends are well. Please give my love to your brothers & sister. Were Jessie & Hattie at home in St. Louis, I wonder, when you were there? Love from us all. Good-bye, Dearest Friend. A. GILCHRIST. Please give my love to John Burroughs when you write or see him. LETTER LV ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN _Marley, Haslemere England Aug. 22, '80._ MY DEAREST FRIEND: