ges of climate he has gone through. He advised me
strongly to put little furniture into our cabins. I told him to have
yours made as neat as possible, without regard to expense. He has
promised to have it furnished simply, but prettily; and when you see it,
if any addition occurs to you, it shall be made. I shall spare nothing
to make a pretty little boudoir for you. You cannot think how my friends
here praise you. You are quite Sir James Graham's heroine.

To-day I breakfasted with Sharp, whose kindness is as warm as possible.
Indeed, all my friends seen to be in the most amiable mood. I have twice
as many invitations as I can accept; and I have been frequently begged
to name my own party. Empty as London is, I never was so much beset with
invitations. Sharp asked me about you. I told him how much I regretted
my never having had any opportunity of showing you the best part of
London society. He said that he would take care that you should see what
was best worth seeing before your departure. He promises to give us a
few breakfast-parties and dinner-parties, where you will meet as many
as he can muster of the best set in town,--Rogers, Luttrell, Rice, Tom
Moore, Sydney Smith, Grant, and other great wits and politicians. I am
quite delighted at this; both because you will, I am sure, be amused,
and pleased, at a time when you ought to have your mind occupied, and
because even to have mixed a little in a circle so brilliant will be
of advantage to you in India. You have neglected, and very rightly and
sensibly, frivolous accomplishments; you have not been at places of
fashionable diversion; and it is, therefore, the more desirable that
you should appear among the dancing, pianoforte-playing, opera-going,
damsels at Calcutta as one who has seen society better than any that
they ever approached. I hope that you will not disapprove of what I have
done. I accepted Sharp's offer for you eagerly.

Ever yours

T. B. M.

To Hannah M. Macaulay.

London: January 2, 1834.

My dear Sister,--I am busy with an article for Napier. [The first
article on Lord Chatham.] I cannot in the least tell at present whether
I shall like it or not. I proceed with great ease; and in general I have
found that the success of my writings has been in proportion to the ease
with which they have been written.

I had a most extraordinary scene with Lady Holland. If she had been as
young and handsome as she was thirty years ago, she would have turned