Chipping Norton
July 11th 1877
My Darling Eugénie,
I must just write you a line or two, in a great hurry, lest you should feel at at all disappointed in not receiving a letter when you expect.
Your dear letter has just arrived quite unexpectedly and has made me very happy, I am so delighted to hear that the roses were pretty fresh, of course I could only send small blooms.
I have decided to show roses at Evesham to-morrow and must cut them in an hour or so to put them in their stands and take them off by the last train, I shall arrive there about 10P.M. get up early in the morning and shape them and then start back at once arriving here at 11.30A.M. to-morrow morning, which will not lose much time, I will then write to you, my darling, more fully which letter you may look for Saturday morning.
The photos have not turned up by this post but then big parcels generally arrive a post later.
Excuse this shabby scrawly letter, but I am pushed for time, but could not bear to think that you might feel at all disappointed in not hearing.
Good-bye for the present my own sweet darling Eugénie and ever believe in the deep affection of your own true lover
Julius Sladden
I have just kissed your dear likeness, and my signature.
