an article on him early next week.

Ever yours sincerely

T. B. MACAULAY.

From the Right Hon. Francis Jeffrey to Macvey Napier, Esq.

24, Moray Place Saturday evening, December

My dear Napier,--I am very much obliged to you for the permission
to read this. It is to me, I will confess, a solemn and melancholy
announcement. I ought not, perhaps, so to consider it. But I cannot help
it. I was not prepared for six years, and I must still hope that it will
not be so much. At my age, and with that climate for him, the chances of
our ever meeting again are terribly endangered by such a term. He does
not know the extent of the damage which his secession may be to the
great cause of Liberal government. His anticipations and offers about
the Review are generous and pleasing, and must be peculiarly gratifying
to you. I think, if you can, you should try to see him before he goes,
and I envy you the meeting.

Ever very faithfully yours

F. JEFFREY.

To Hannah M. Macaulay.

London: December 21, 1833.

My dear Sister,--Yesterday I dined at Boddington's. We had a very
agreeable party: Duncannon, Charles Grant, Sharp, Chantrey the sculptor,
Bobus Smith, and James Mill. Mill and I were extremely friendly, and
I found him a very pleasant companion, and a man of more general
information than I had imagined.

Bobus was very amusing. He is a great authority on Indian matters. He
was during several years Advocate-General in Bengal, and made all his
large fortune there. I asked him about the climate. Nothing, he said,
could be pleasanter, except in August and September. He never ate or
drank so much in his life. Indeed, his looks do credit to Bengal; for
a healthier man of his age I never saw. We talked about expenses. "I
cannot conceive," he said, "how anybody at Calcutta can live on less
than L3,000 a year, or can contrive to spend more than L4,000." We
talked of the insects and snakes, and he said a thing which reminded me
of his brother Sydney: "Always, Sir, manage to have at your table
some fleshy, blooming, young writer or cadet, just come out; that the
musquitoes may stick to him, and leave the rest of the company alone."

I have been with George Babington to the Asia. We saw her to every
disadvantage, all litter and confusion; but she is a fine ship, and our
cabins will be very good. The captain I like much. He is an agreeable,
intelligent, polished man of forty; and very good-looking, considering
what storms and chan