"Mr. Sneid announces that the passage was most favourable. They stayed
a week at the Cape, and three days at St. Helena, where they visited
Bonaparte's tomb (another instance of the vanity of all things!), and
their voyage was enlivened off Ascension by the taking of some delicious
turtle!

"You may be sure that the most liberal sum which you have placed to my
credit with the Messrs. Hobson and Co. shall be faithfully expended
on my dear little charge. Mrs. Newcome can scarcely be called his
grandmamma, I suppose; and I daresay her Methodistical ladyship will not
care to see the daughter and grandson of a clergyman of the Church
of England! My brother Charles took leave to wait upon her when he
presented your last most generous bill at the bank. She received him
most rudely, and said a fool and his money are soon parted; and when
Charles said, 'Madam, I am the brother of the late Mrs. Major Newcome,'
'Sir,' says she, 'I judge nobody; but from all accounts, you are the
brother of a very vain, idle, thoughtless, extravagant woman; and Thomas
Newcome was as foolish about his wife as about his money.' Of course,
unless Mrs. N. writes to invite dear Clive, I shall not think of sending
him to Clapham.

"It is such hot weather that I cannot wear the beautiful shawl you have
sent me, and shall keep it in lavender till next winter! My brother, who
thanks you for your continuous bounty, will write next month, and report
progress as to his dear pupil. Clive will add a postscript of his own,
and I am, my dear Major, with a thousand thanks for your kindness to
me,--Your grateful and affectionate Martha Honeyman."

In a round hand and on lines ruled with pencil:--

"Dearest Papa i am very well i hope you are Very Well. M Sneed brought
me in a postchaise i like Mr. Sneed very much. i like Aunt Martha i
like Hannah. There are no ships here i am your affectionate son Clive
Newcome."

II. Rue St. Dominique, St. Germain, Paris,

Nov. 15, 1820,

"Long separated from the country which was the home of my youth, I
carried from her tender recollections, and bear her always a lively
gratitude. The Heaven has placed me in a position very different from
that in which I knew you. I have been the mother of many children. My
husband has recovered a portion of the property which the Revolution
tore from us; and France, in returning to its legitimate sovereign,
received once more the nobility which accompanied his august house into
exile.