Although the years that have passed since our last meeting may have weakened your recollection of us and ours, still, in the hope that you have not quite forgotten us, Mrs Woodlock and I venture to send you a card commemorating the for us important event of our Golden Wedding. Mrs. Woodlock heartily joins me in thus seeking to recal our existence to your memory; we have not forgotten your goodness to members of our family. And we ask you to accept this card, and hope it may revive in your mind a kind remembrance of us, and induce you to give us now and then a short prayer for the happy ending of our long journey together.

We should have sent this earlier, but the first supply of the cards that we got from Munich, where they were printed, was exhausted, chiefly in dispatches to members of our family, and it is only recently we have received a second supply.

We trust you are well and happy, and we add the expression of

our[1]p2 sincere hope that if any circumstances should bring you, even for a short visit, to Bruges, you will not refuse to honour us with a call. It will indeed give much pleasure to us and and our family here to receive you as an old friend whom we truly respect.