An earthquake may prevent me, dear Mrs. ——, a civil commotion attended with bloodshed, or fatal disease,—but it must be some cause as powerful as these. Pray return the enclosed when you have read it, as I have borrowed it. Yours affectionately,
* Mr. Murchison was attending the British Association for the Advancement of Science, that met at Glasgow. The President was the Marquis of Breadalbane. |
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I have heard from Mrs. Grote, who is very well, and amusing herself with Horticulture and Democracy, —the most approved methods of growing cabbages and destroying kings.