_Tales for Winter Nights_. Yes, that, I think, we will call the lot of them when republished. Why have you not sent me a testimonial? Everybody else but you has responded, and Symonds, but I’m afraid he’s ill. Do think, too, if anybody else would write me a testimonial. I am told quantity goes far. I have good ones from Rev. Professor Campbell, Professor Meiklejohn, Leslie Stephen, Lang, Gosse, and a very shaky one from Hamerton. Grant is an elector, so can’t, but has written me kindly. From Tulloch I have not yet heard. Do help me with suggestions. This old chair, with its £250 and its light work, would make me. It looks as if we should take Cater’s chalet {210} after all; but O! to go back to that place, it seems cruel. I have not yet received the Landor; but it may be at home, detained by my mother, who returns to-morrow. Believe me, dear Colvin, ever yours, R. L. S. Yours came; the class is in summer; many thanks for the testimonial, it is bully; arrived along with it another from Symonds, also bully; he is ill, but not lungs, thank God—fever got in Italy. We _have_ taken Cater’s chalet; so we are now the aristo.’s of the valley. There is no hope for me, but if there were, you would hear sweetness and light streaming from my lips. ‘The Merry Men’ Chap. I. Eilean Aros. Tip Top Tale. II. What the Wreck had brought to Aros. III. Past and Present in Sandag Bay. IV. The Gale. V. A Man out of the Sea. TO W. E. HENLEY _Kinnaird Cottage_, _Pitlochry_, _July_ 1881. MY DEAR HENLEY,—I hope, then, to have a visit from you. If before August, here; if later, at Braemar. Tupe!