be there in a very few days.

Now, God bless you, my dearest. Write to my mother, and kiss Hen, and
remember me kindly to Lucy and the Atkinses.

G. B[ORROW].

LETTER II.

53A PALL MALL,
_Saturday_ [1854].

DEAR CARRETA,

I am thinking of coming to you on Thursday. I do not know that I can do
anything more here, and the dulness of the weather, and the mists, are
making me ill.

Please to send another five pound note by Tuesday morning. I have spent
scarcely anything of that which you sent, except what I owe to Mrs. W.,
but I wish to have money in my pocket, and Murray and Cooke are going to
dine with me on Tuesday.

I shall be glad to be with you again, for I am very much in want of your
society. I miss very much my walks at Llangollen by the quiet canal; but
what's to be done?

Everything seems nearly at a standstill in London on account of this
wretched war, at which it appears to me the English are getting the
worst, notwithstanding their boasting. They thought to settle it in an
autumn's day; they little knew the Russians, and they did not reflect
that just after autumn comes winter, which has ever been the Russian's
friend.

Have you heard anything about the rent of the cottage? I should have
been glad to hear from you this morning.

Give my love to Hen, and may God bless you, dear.

GEORGE BORROW.

Keep this.

LETTER III.

TENBY
_Tuesday_, 25 [_August_, 1857].

MY DEAR CARRETA,

Since writing to you I have been rather unwell, and was obliged to remain
two days at Sandypool. The weather has been terribly hot, and affected
my head, and likewise my sight slightly. Moreover, one of the shoes hurt
my foot. I came to this place to-day, and shall presently leave it for
Pembroke on my way back. I shall write to you from there. I shall
return by Cardigan.

What I want you to do is to write to me directed to the post office,
Cardigan (in Cardiganshire), and either inclose a post office order for
five pounds, or an order from Lloyd and Co. on the Banker of that place
for the same sum. But at any rate write, or I shall not know what to