Surely there is strength for more life in that hand.

Now I stoop to kiss it in my thought.

Feel my kiss on the dear hand, dear, dear friend.
A previous letter of yours pained me much because I seemed to have given you the painful trouble in it of describing your state, your weakness.
Ah, I _knew_ what that state was, and it was _therefore_ that the slip of paper which came with 'Atherton' seemed to me so ominous! By the way, I shall see 'Atherton' before long, I dare say.

The 'German Library' in our street is to have a 'box of new books' almost directly, and in it surely must be 'Atherton,' and you shall hear my thoughts of the book as soon as I catch sight of it.

Then you have sent me the Dramas.