If you see your way to this kind action, and write to him to come and see you, kindly state in your letter that it is about a situation.

He may think otherwise that it is about the flogging of A.2.11., a thing that does not interest _you_, and about which _he_ is a little afraid to talk.
If the result of this long letter will be that you will help this fellow prisoner of mine to a place in your service, I shall consider my afternoon better spent than any afternoon for the last two years, and three weeks.
In any case I have now written to you fully on all things as reported to me.
I again assure you of my gratitude for your kindness to me during my imprisonment, and on my release.
And am always Your sincere friend and admirer OSCAR WILDE.
_With regard to Lawley_ All soldiers are neat, and smart, and make capital servants.

He would be a good _groom_: he is, I believe, a 3rd Hussars man--he was a quiet, well-conducted chap in Reading always.
Naturally I replied to this letter at once, saying that he had been misinformed, that I was not angry and if I could do anything for him I should be delighted: I did my best, too, for Lawley.
Here is his letter of thanks to me for helping him when he came out of prison.
Sandwich Hotel, Dieppe.
MY DEAR FRANK: Just a line to thank you for your great kindness to me--for the lovely clothes, and for the generous cheque.
You have been a real good friend to me--and I shall never forget your kindness: to remember such a debt as mine to you--a debt of kind fellowship--is a pleasure.
About our tour--later on let us think about it.

My friends have been so kind to me here that I am feeling happy already.
Yours, OSCAR WILDE.
If you write to me please do so under cover to R.B.Ross, who is here with me.
In the next letter of his which I have kept Oscar is perfectly friendly again; he tells me that he is "entirely without money, having received nothing from his Trustees for months," and asks me for even L5, adding, "I drift in ridiculous impecuniosity without a sou." THE MYSTERY OF PERSONALITY I transcribe here another letter of Oscar to me from the second year after his release to show his interest in all intellectual things and for a flash of characteristic humour at the expense of the Paris police.
The envelope is dated October 13, 1898:-- From M.Sebastian Melmoth, Hotel d'Alsace, Rue des Beaux-arts, Paris.
MY DEAR FRANK: How are you?
I read your appreciation of Rodin's "Balzac" with intensest pleasure, and I am looking forward to more Shakespeare--you will of course put all your Shakespearean essays into a book, and, equally of course, I must have a copy.

It is a great era in Shakespearean criticism--the first time that one has looked in the plays not for philosophy, for there is none, but for the wonder of a great personality--something far better, and far more mysterious than any philosophy--it is a great thing that you have done.