August 20th. 1900.

BEECH HILL,
CARLETON,
SKIPTON-IN-CRAVEN.

Dear Herr Grieg,

I venture to send you by this post some re-print copies of papers which I have written on Norway., as you were good enough to express an interest in one which Fröken Bertheau showed to you at Turtegrö.

They are however very light, & wholly unworthy of so great a subject as your glorious old mountains, which I love most sincerely & with an affection which deepens with each successive visit.

Please pardon me for saying that, when I hear or play your music, familiar scenes in your grand old north land are often recalled to my mind, & thus I enjoy a two-fold pleasure. I picture the stern & wild fjeld, the pure snowfields, the pine woods, the fjord,the fos, & the gentle beauties of nature, & I feel very grateful to the composer who has so beautifully & faithfully represented by music his country’s especial charms.

Pray excuse me for saying this.     

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My eldest girl, Katharine, who has been already twice in Norway, hearing that I am writing to you has just said in her impetuous school girl manner “Do ask Herr Grieg to give me his autograph” & as the child has a happy way of getting what she wants from her father, I said I would do so.

I am writing a book on     mountaineering in Norway, but find that it is a much more formidable task than that of climbing the mountains themselves.

Believe me to remain,
Yours faithfully,
Wm. Cecil Slingsby.