Lucie Duff Gordon
To Alick, BOULAK, November 6, 1868.
Dearest Alick,
I am sure you will rejoice to hear that I am really better. I now feel so much like living on a bit longer that I will ask you to send me a cargo of medicines. I didn’t think it worth while before to ask for anything to be sent to me that could not be forwarded to Hades, but my old body seems very tough and I fancy I have still one or two of my nine lives left.
I hope to sail in a very few days, Maurice is going up to Cairo so I send this by him. Yesterday was little Rainie’s birthday, and I thought very longingly of her. The photo, of Leighton’s sketch of Janet I like very much.