uliarities of spot--convict dress, &c.--as I have a
touching bit of horse-y sentiment (!) connected therewith,
which will do for _Spg. Gazette_.--I should think you ought
to find painty bits--within walking distance--say--right or
left ten miles?

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Yrs. affecty.,

DAD.

_Sunday._

Really, my dear Walter, I thought you _did_ know better than
to disturb my devotional frame of mind on this blessed
Sabbath morn by forwarding me such a thoroughly worldly and
evil-thought-producing thing as a wretched milliner's
bill!!!--The wretch must wait--he gorged L5 not long before
I left home.--The greediness of some men!!

The Pic. Gall. circular I return--as you may like to enquire
about it--the doz. others, "cheap bacon"--"patent teeth and
everlasting gums," &c., &c., &c., &c., &c. I shall manure
the grounds of Colyton with ----.

I think you might get some background material for coast
scenes down here.

Yr. affec. Dad,

H. K. B.

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69, BLENHEIM CRESCENT, NOTTING-HILL, _Saturday_.

MY DEAR DOCTOR,

I send the Tenpounder, may it reach you in safety!

The Commander has returned. I sent you a paper containing
the important news, which, however, may _not_ have reached
you, although I don't think it contained any remarks upon
the "Hemperors personal appearance," &c., &c., &c.

Tom is in the bosom of the family for a few days.--His Pipe
is tuned differently now to what it used to was, for he now
declareth that St. John's is "a jolly school!" He seems to
get on very well indeed, and has brought home what Dr. Lowe
calls a "well-earned prize."

He laments daily over the supposed loss of 4_d_ invested in
a letter to you--from school--as it was directed, he
says,--21, Rue _Mussel wine_--I express doubts of its having
reached you--and he groans aloud over the Bull's eyes it
_would_ have bought!----

I am (at _present_) _on_ a Sporting Paper--supported by some
high and mighty Turf Nobs, but, I fear, like everything I
have to do with, now-a-days, it will collapse--for--some of
the Proprietors of the Paper are also Shareholders, &c.,
&c., in the Graphotype Co., so they want to work the two
together.--I hate the process