ol _borrowed_ from me, which I
shall assuredly never see again, and my travelling and living expenses
deducted--my clear gains for this fortnight will be L68. It is not much,
but all that much better than nothing. I shall be in town next week, and
had intended, at the end of it, to go down to Bannisters; but Emily
writes me that they cannot have me then, so I shall probably go to
Plymouth, where they want me to act, and after that return to town
again, and organize some more country engagements for myself; for I
can't afford to be doing nothing. I go to town to-morrow morning, and
shall be glad to be _at home_ again. I am writing with a vile iron pen,
that has neither mind, soul, nor body.

God bless you, dear. Good-bye.

Ever yours,
FANNY.

ROYAL HOTEL, PLYMOUTH, June 16th.
MY DEAR HAL,

Do not again put that sponge, saturated with that _stuff_, in your
letters. The whiff of it I got accidentally in one I received some days
ago was very pleasant, but the quantity you send me to-day is too much,
and has given me a headache, and made me sick. Such virtue is there in
proportion! Such immense difference in only _more_ or _less_!

You bid me _lump_ my answers to you, but I hate to do that. I cannot
bear to defraud you in quantity, though inevitable necessity condemns me
to the disparity of quality in our communications; but to give you poor
measure in both seems to me too bad....

I shall act here on Friday, and leave for Exeter on Saturday, and I
shall act there one or two nights, but I do not yet know precisely how
often. I expect to be in London by the end of next week, and to remain
there for a week, after which I shall probably go for some nights to
Southampton, so that, in a sort of way, I shall see Emily, and she will
see me; further than this I have not at present decided. I have yet to
visit the Midland Counties, where I have had engagements offered me, and
York, Sheffield, and Leeds; after which I shall probably go on to
Scotland. But all this is at present without fixed date.

Some time in the summer, I have promised to visit the C----s (Roman
acquaintances of ours) at Brighton; and I shall stay some time in
Scotland at a place called Carolside, with that very nice Mrs. Mitchell,
with whom I am fast growing into a fast friendship. We shall be a
strange company of widows