If I am
alive in the summer, I shall be only too glad to pass a few days with
you at Bulstrode, if you will let me. I feel that a talk to you would
carry me back to my happy days.
"Believe me, with warmest thanks,
"Yours sincerely,
"ISABEL BURTON."
After the publication of the Life of her husband Lady Burton spent
most of her time at Baker Street, with intervals at Mortlake, and a
few visits to friends, including Lady Windsor, Lord Arundell of Wardour,
Lady Guendolen Ramsden at Bulstrode, and Canon Waterton at Carlisle.
The year which followed (1894) may be said to have been her last active
year, and it was the pleasantest year of her life in England. The
success which had attended her book had brought her more into contact
with the world than she had been at any time since her husband's death,
and she saw that there was a field of usefulness still before her.
This was the year in which she saw most friends, entertained most,
and went about most. Her health, never good, seemed to rally, and
she was far less nervous than usual. She may be said about this time
to have taken almost to literature as a profession, for she worked
at it eight hours every day, in addition to keeping up a large
correspondence, chiefly on literary and business matters. She went
frequently to the play, got all the new books, and kept herself well
in touch with the current thought of the day.
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