Bridlington Quay, Yorkshire 
17 August 1881 
1 Sea View 

Dear Moor, 

Your telegram just received. I hope your wife managed the 
journey all right and conclude from the above that you evidently 
arrived by the night boat. Drop me a line to say how things are 
going. 

As regards our departure, we ourselves were very much in the 
dark. Owing to a variety of circumstances we were unable to make 
preparations for tomorrow when our week expires. On receiving your 
telegram we arranged with the Landlady that we should pay another 
half week’s rent and shall now be arriving back in London on Mon- 
day” evening if nothing crops up in the meantime. The weather: 
pretty well continuously overcast, threatening and cold; since yester- 
day it has been decidedly wet and in conditions like that Bridlington 
Quay becomes a downright bore. 

* Meanwhile, good-bye, All yours-> 22 August 

Gambetta Hoorep pown ?trés-bien*? in Charonne.'? 

Your 
F. E.