p.

Room 411
30 Ipswich Street

Dear Miss Bates,

Many thanks for your
kind contribution to my pomological
education, which had been strangely
neglected. The package was welcome
and pleasant. Before long I hope
you will have dinner with me
in town, and perhaps some sort
of show. The proofs of "Matthias"
will be coming in a few days,
and I hope they won't make me
sad that you won't want to see
me.

Yours sincerely

E.A. Robinson

[in upper right corner, in a hand not Robinson's, "May 17 1930" is written in pencil, and beneath the address "[May 17, 1930]" is written in pencil in a hand also neither Robinson's nor that of the preceding annotation]