To Alfred Wrigley   [after 12 March 1868]¹

I hope you will ex my writing thus again.² Horace has never said or hinted it to me [rest assured] that you had hurt his feelings in any way;³ on the contrary I remember that he distinctly said that you had been very kind in attending to him & had brought him on much in [studying].— I do not [2 words illeg] understand for his disposition is rather reserved & [peculiar] why he wishes to leave school; but the wish has been persistent & I have always followed, hitherto with [illeg] my sons wishes. I freely own I have always felt doubtful about a private tutor for him— And this leads me to add, that I remember making a similar remark together with the 2 other sentences quoted before, in my letter to you, which no doubt was lost by the post-off. M^rs D. also believes that she remembers my writing shortly before the Boys return.—⁴ I hope that you will believe that I did write for it w^d have been an unpardonable [rudery] not to have written a second note, in [addition] to that which you enclosed [earlier],⁵ before removing my son— This note requires no acknowledgment & is written only for my own satisfaction