A Letter to Gabriel Coppercrow -- April 22th 1891
[the writing is a bit shaky in places, but it has been wrote while travelling by train]
Mr. Coppercrow,
Your suggestion of children's velocipedes was one that I am very glad to have received. I took my niece & nephew into town this morning and purchased them both wheeled contraptions in their sizes. I was worried that Flora might be too young and small for one, but I managed to find one with three wheels and thus I do not have to worry about the balancing problem. We spent half the day together going around the town and even ventured to ride back to my sister-in-law's parents' home on them. I ended-up having to carry Flora and to send servants to collect the velocipedes when we got back, but Robert peddled all the way. He even had the energy to go back out after lunch and go around the road, accompanied by his dog Hattie. I have arranged for the vehicles to be shipped to Robin's home in Cambridge while we are at the sea.
As for how I have been doing, I have been exceedingly well. Even Elise seems to perked-up some, though I worry for how worried Robin is. We are one our way to a resort town called Walton-on-the-Naze right now, in any case. I am actually writing this to you while on the train. I hope all is well, and I would like to ask you on a strange woman that seems to be of 'your sort', that I met last week. She kept tea in her hair.
---L.S. Cassius
Mr. Coppercrow,
Your suggestion of children's velocipedes was one that I am very glad to have received. I took my niece & nephew into town this morning and purchased them both wheeled contraptions in their sizes. I was worried that Flora might be too young and small for one, but I managed to find one with three wheels and thus I do not have to worry about the balancing problem. We spent half the day together going around the town and even ventured to ride back to my sister-in-law's parents' home on them. I ended-up having to carry Flora and to send servants to collect the velocipedes when we got back, but Robert peddled all the way. He even had the energy to go back out after lunch and go around the road, accompanied by his dog Hattie. I have arranged for the vehicles to be shipped to Robin's home in Cambridge while we are at the sea.
As for how I have been doing, I have been exceedingly well. Even Elise seems to perked-up some, though I worry for how worried Robin is. We are one our way to a resort town called Walton-on-the-Naze right now, in any case. I am actually writing this to you while on the train. I hope all is well, and I would like to ask you on a strange woman that seems to be of 'your sort', that I met last week. She kept tea in her hair.
---L.S. Cassius