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 time, which is very apt to produce those sudden chills. He is quite well again.

The ‘Zenobia,’ which took our first letters from hence home, is in the river to-day—come back with answers. What a time we must have been here! And I give you fair notice I shall cry and roar considerably if she does not bring quantities of letters. Yours of August must be on board. Mind you do not slacken about writing. Somehow we have been rather starved the last two months, and it is a shocking sensation. I believe we expect too much when a great many ships come in, because they cannot all bring letters; but yet they ought. This must go to-morrow per ‘Windsor,’ but I shall leave it open to the last minute for the chance of the ‘Zenobia’s’ news.

Tuesday, January 17, Two letters from Maria, who is a jewel of a friend, one from Mr. Greville, and one from by a Glasgow ship; all very well. ‘But where is County Guy?’ Which means where is your letter, and them ’ere journals? However, in fact, there are only what they call