You are so kind, that I am sure you will be glad to hear that Mrs. Sydney bore the rest of her journey well, though she is not yet off the sofa.
Dr. Thompson advises as follows for you:—
I have been today to an exhibition of Scotch portraits. High cheek-bones are not favourable to the fine arts.
I found it dreadfully cold from Alnwick to Edinburgh. My
companions were a captain of a man-of-war and a sherry merchant from Cadiz. My
vendor of sherry told me that all the accounts of Ferdinand’s sending
regiments were most absurd; that he could no more send men than send angels;
that he was not devout; that, in fact, the Spanish nation did not exist; that
the French and the monks in the south of Spain
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And so, dear Lady Grey, God bless you! Read cheerful books, play at cards, look forward two hours, and believe me always most truly yours,