Midsummer, and Mrs Franklin has
told us that an application is about to be made for another, at the
same time, from a friend of hers: so we are likely to begin with
fifteen next half-year.

"Mr and Mrs H. Monteath return from Scotland in a week or two.
Their house is very near ours, and they have frequently expressed a
wish that we may be good neighbours. This will be a great privilege
to us and to you in your occasional visits. I think you will
henceforth be able to come once a year, and it is possible, that if we
go on prosperously, you may see us in London some time or other. We
have no plan at present for any thing of the kind; but it would
certainly be a great advantage to Isabella to have lessons from London
masters occasionally. This, however, must be left to the future to
arrange. In the mean time, we are very happy that so many of us have
been allowed to live together. I once thought that we should be all
dispersed: you where you are; Isabella as a private governess; Alfred
in India; and myself--I did not know where. But now four out of five
of us are living under one roof, and with no fear of being separated.
O what a privilege! But I must stop my pen. I sat down intending to
shew you how happy we are. Have I succeeded? If I have, join me in
thanksgivings to the `Father of the fatherless,'

"I am your most affectionate,--

"Jane Forsyth."

FINIS.

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