Autograph Letter Signed ('Mortimer Wheeler') to Fred Behrens, editor of the Bradford Observer.

12mo: 1 p. Twenty-one lines. Clear and complete. Fair: on lightly-aged and ruckled paper. He 'turned up at the Executive this afternoon rather in the hope of seeing you than in the expectation of being useful'. He had 'intended amongst other things supporting a meeting of the Committee sometime next week'. He is 'only just emerging from the influenza you gave me last time, which proved of a rather virulent order!' He has 'a visitor in the house & must consult the home arrangements'. 'The absence of Fred Byles (on holiday) ties me somwhat more closely than usual. The papers for the Handbook strike a very good average, but they run to about 18 pp. over the estimate for space.' Ends with a misquotation from Thomas Gray. Fred Behrens (1849-1933), son of the textile merchant and philanthropist Sir Jacob Behrens (1806-1889), collaborated with Wheeler on editorials for the Bradford Observer (now Yorkshire Observer).