Ryder has been threatened with lung fever. He encloses an attempt at a sonnet. Ryder comments briefly on his work. He is glad that Maurice Francis Egan is pleased and Egan is right about the sincerity of Ryder's work. Ryder does not seem to think very highly of the work he has done on Professor Joseph Lyons ' poem, and will not accept the ten dollars. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.