Letter from Edward Thomas to his wife, Helen Thomas. Archival reference: 424/1/1/1/1/132
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29.ii.99

My dear friend,
I too was out for some hours yesterday afternoon with Maine
and Morgan. But not along the river where you and I went.
I have never taken that walk since, perhaps because unless
it is Haynes, I have no

to you of him.

As for books - I have returned the Wordsworth volume
- I take it that there are no books for sale or distribution
now at Patten Road. Whither & when do they
move.

Is nurse Harrison to attend you if things wait till
January?

friends here whom I could have fitly invited to cover the same ground. Some day perhaps Brook and I will go, though he seems not to like to be alone with me. I fear that perhaps my occasional drinking & its results offend him: for he is

religious, teetotal & rather good, in spite of a reported phrase of his - "I hope soon to develop a keen nose for the indecent". Of course I didn't supply him with any indecency: in fact I am always ashamed of drinking or filth when I think of him. But why should I talk

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It will be impossible for me to make any new ventures in writing before my Schools; and, as the old sources fail me, ways and means become more and more difficult. You see, I have no money

thing for me in my present unsexed situation.

I should like to tell of Maines' epigrams (such as "If we are to leave footprints on the sands of time we ought to
cultivate beautiful feet".) and other things, but must go.
Adieu. adieu.

I am ever and wholly yours my own sweet little one. Edward

news from any Papers, and I have done no writing, except
a phrase or two.

Saturday week is the date of my return, probably - not before; & just possibly I may have to wait for a Viva Voce in Divinity. How I look forward to it. It is a necessary

left now, and though I shall not have to pay Mother anything till January, there will doubtless be some expenses . . . I am
hoping the Deacon will send me a five pound note. . . . I have
no