[London,] 22 September 1890 

Dear Hermann, 

When your letter of 28 May arrived I was just expecting a visit 
from my Dublin wine merchant and so I decided to wait and discuss 
the matter with him in person. As it happened, however, the man 
didn’t come until the end of June when I was wholly taken up with 
my impending departure* and so forgot about your sherry until re- 
minded a few days ago by another look at your letter and again today 
by your second one. Not that you will have suffered as a result, since 
travelling during the hot weather would have done the wine no good 
and it will at any rate now travel more safely. I shall write to Dublin 
at once and see what can be done. Brett will certainly supply you 
with good wine; I have laid down another 50 or 60 dozen claret and 
port of the recent good years; I don’t use much sherry, but in this re- 
spect, too, the chap is reliable. So more news very shortly. I have just 

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to Norway 

spent 4 weeks beside the Channel, at Folkestone, and feel extremely 
well and cheerful. Let’s hope it lasts! Love to you and yours, 

From your old 
Friedrich