WCP1384

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Arthog.

Dear Sir,

I thank you much for your post card. You seem to be paying the penalty of worldly success — sometimes harder to bear than failure but you are strong with the strength God gives to those of His children who trust Him. I will not add to your overtaxed powers by sending you any more letters — only just this one, to thank you for the great pleasure I am still enjoying in reading your "Life"¹ — and as I have many portraits of you ^{in the book} sending you one of my own in return. Also, as you lose a garden, I enclose some slips of myrtle which came from slips brought to Wales by M. Greyard, from trees which grew in the gardens of the Tuileries when he lived there as the secretary and friend of Lamartine² — I hope they will grow and remind you of one who tried to do for the French what you have done for the British. He too believed in the [2] evolution of man — not only from animal life but from the ether — the spirit or breath of God: and he taught exactly what you teach that society might be regenerated if people realised — the unity of the substance — their one-ness with God & understood more generally the working of Natural Laws. But he was a hundred years before his time — and as his friend Max Müller³ said, ''What could one do against the world?'' You know how much one could do. He got imprisonment for his pains & was called a madman — sixty years ago — but thanks to such men as yourself & Sir William Brookes⁴ times are changed since then, & although we are still terribly in the dark — the Clouds seem breaking.

Yours faithfully,

E. Lilly⁵ [signature]