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[Embossed text]: 1,PORTLAND VILLAS, EAST HEATH ROAD, HAMPSTEAD. N.W.


30 Jan 95


Dear Lady Welby,
	
I am ashamed at discovering that I have left your letter unanswered a whole week. But if you know  my work - the details of it - + how hard it is to press it into the inelastic hours, you would pardon even more than this.
	
I am [dispond?] to think that it would be [well?] to make the aim of the Conference more definite than your rough draft does, + perhaps also to narrow its scope. Would it not be [better?] to say frankly that we are [going?] to deal

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with language as expressing mental phenomena. This would no doubt make the circular an appeal to psychologists first of all; but it could Easily be known that we are all talking this metaphorical language, so that the practical educational object might still be emphasized. 
	
I fear that [as?] your draft [?] [?] [?] will fight [?] of the Conference as attempting too vast an enquiry. 
	I would suggest further that it might be well to point

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out that the special lines of enquiry we wish to follow out, though touched on by this philologist, the grammar [?] the [dictionary?]. [Written?] [to?] the Logician, are not adequately pursued by any or all of [this?]
	
I [fancy?] Clause I might be recast. I fear it would not be quite clear to those who know nothing of your long + arduous studies in this direction. Clause II would I suppose have to be modified along with this.

I will if you prefer [turn?] the matter over + send you alternative suggestions for the opening clauses, but I should much prefer that you drew them up
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I am sorry that I cannot write more this evening. It is late, + I am not very well, yet cannot bring myself to delay answering your letter. 
Of course I will do what you wish as to sending out circular.
	I am sorry to hear that Sir william is ailing. The [weather?] is very trying, + it has caught me among many others.

 
Believe me,

Yours most truly,

J Sully


I am keeping your rough draft