“I had hoped to have seen you this week, but, being disappointed in that expectation, I write to say that I shall be at home after Wednesday next, and shall be very happy to see you on Thursday to dinner, at half-past four o’clock; but if you can come earlier in the day, tant mieux. I am to have a party of farmers on that and the three successive days; and your assistance would be everything to me, to get through the undertaking.
