Sir Edwin Arnold

[left hand side] [notation, different hand] Edwin Arnold Ansd by Telegraph. [/notation, different hand]

again, & I remember your courtesy too well to doubt that you will forgive me for thus troubling you.

Most faithfully [yours?]

Edwin Arnold

The Hon [?] Senator L. Stanford

[notation in shorthand] [illegible] [/notation in shorthand] [/left hand side]

[right hand side]

c/o Mr. Andrew Carnegie

[preprinted] [monogram: C] 5 WEST FIFTY-FIRST STREET, NEW YORK. [/preprinted]

Feby 6 1892

Dear Sir

[Presuming?] on the pleasure [wh.?] I had of making your acquaintance two years ago at San Francisco, I sent to you [there?] yesterday the [illegible] telegram

"Sir Edwin Arnold asks the President kindly to have [reserved?] for him in Belgic for

[left hand side] Yokohama March 1st the same single-berthed deck cabin he occupied on the voyage described in "Seas & Lands". Please wire reply"

No reply has come, & I hear you are in Washington. If this reaches your hand, will you most kindly wire

[right hand side] me a word before next Wednesday the 10th on wh. I go with Mr. Carnegie's party round by New Orleans to San Francisco. The pleasant relations wh. I have had with the O & O Company, & my agreeable recollection of the "Belgic" & her Captain make me desirous to sail by her

Sir Edwin Arnold

Feb. 6, 1892

Wants cabin on O. & O. S. S. "Belgic" for Yokohama, Mar. 1.

(Author of 'Light of Asia'; 1832-1904.)