Do keep up your spirits, my dearest darling.

I continue to think of you day and night and I send you all my love.
I am always your own loving and devoted boy.
BOSIE.
_This letter now published for the first time is the most characteristic I received from Oscar Wilde in the years after his imprisonment.

It dates I think from the winter of 1897, say some eight months after his release.

F.H._ HOTEL DE NICE Rue des Beaux Arts PARIS My dear Frank: I cannot express to you how deeply touched I am by your letter--it is _une vraie poignee de main_.

I simply long to see you and to come again in contact with your strong sane wonderful personality.
I cannot understand about the poem (The Ballad of Reading Gaol) my publisher tells me that, as I had begged him to do, he sent the two _first_ copies to the "Saturday" and the "Chronicle"-- and he also tells me that Arthur Symons told him he had written especially to you to ask you to allow him to do a _signed_ article.
I suppose publishers are untrustworthy.