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" — 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. <Grepard?>, from trees which grew in the gardens of the Tuileries¹ 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. He 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. Lilly [signature]