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 ‘loose letters’—not in a moral sense; but we always hear per ‘Semaphore’ so many ‘loose letters, and so many ‘box packets,’ and the Post Office takes clearly twelve hours hammering away at unpacking those ‘box packets.’

I am so glad you got my panorama, though it was not half finished, and I am particularly glad that thief was discovered. We were always sure it was that boy. Rosina said, when I told her, ‘Me always think so; shocking naughty boy. Me know where his mother live; when me go home to England with Ladyship, me go and beat him for taking me Lady’s things.’ How surprised he will be five years hence at that assault. I wonder what he did with my Prayer-book; however I-am devotedly attached to the other you sent me.

We dined out yesterday at Sir B. ’s, our third and last Judge.

Captain is come back, but not at anchor yet; however he will be with us to-morrow, I expect, and when the ‘Andromache’ goes home I mean to send my drawings to your care. I expect they will amuse you. There is another box going to your care by the ‘Robert Small,’ which sails the end of this week. It is part of