“I have got a delightful plan for the addition at Abb——, which, I think, will make it quite complete, and furnish me with a handsome library, and you with a drawingroom and better bedroom, with good bedrooms for company, &c. It will cost me a little hard work to meet the expense, but I have been a good while idle. I hope to leave this town early next week, and shall hasten back with great delight to my own household gods.
“I hope this will find you from under Dr Ross’s charge. I expect to see you quite in beauty when I come down, for I assure you I have been coaxed by very pretty ladies here, and look for merry faces at home. My picture comes on, and will be a grand thing, but the sitting is a great bore. Chantrey’s bust is one of the finest things he ever did. It is quite the fashion to go to see it—there’s for you. Yours, my dearest love, with the most sincere affection,
