When I get home, you must take my Morte Arthur & read it.Ⓐemendation It is the quaintest and sweetest of all books. And is full of the absolute english of 400 years ago. For instance here is a paragraph which I will quoteⒶemendation from memory. AndⒶemendation you too may learn it by heart for it’sⒶemendation worth it. There are only two other things in our language comparable to it for tender eloquence & simplicity, one is Mr. Lincoln'sⒶemendation Gettysburg speech, & the other has for the moment escaped my memory.

“Ah, Launcelot thou were head of all Christian knights! And now I dare say, thou Sir Launcelot, there thou liest, that thou were never matched of earthly knit’s hands; and thou were the courtliestⒶemendation knight, that ever bare shield, & thou were the truest friend to thy inserted by SLC: friend that ever bestrode horse; and thou were the truest lover, of a sinful man, that ever loved woman, & thou were the kindest man that ever strake with sword; & thou were the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights; & thou were the meekest man & the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies, & thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in rest.”

There isn’t that beautiful? In this book one finds out where Tennyson got the quaint & pretty phrases which he uses in The “Idyls of the king”— “Lightly” & “Wave” & the rest. Yes you must read it when I come sweetheart. Kiss Mamma for me; & Ben & Jean.