Probably in future
I shall spend my time between this place and various big towns abroad,
so that I shall only be here in summer.
At the same time as this letter, I am sending a wedding present for your
new bride. Girls are always crazy about jewellery. I have no further use
for a diadem of brilliants; but you need not tell her where it comes
from. You will recognise it. It was your first overwhelming gift, and on
our wedding day I was so taken up with my new splendour that I never
heard a word of the pastor's sermon. They said it was most eloquent.
I hope you will have the tact to remove the too numerous portraits of
myself which adorn your walls. Sell them for the benefit of struggling
artists; in that way, they will serve some good purpose, and I shall not
run the risk of being disfigured by my successor.
If I should come across any pretty china, or fine embroidery, in Japan,
I shall not forget your passion for collecting.
Let me know the actual date of the wedding, you can always communicate
through my banker.
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