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 love; he is quite well, and so am I. I have certainly very good health in this country. Yours most affectionately, E. E.

Saturday, March 18, 1837. Some officer at Ghazeepore sent us yesterday two young bears, two fawns, and a very young mouse-deer; the united ages of the whole set could not make a month. The bears were the size of Chance and very like him. One fawn died, but the other and the mouse-deer I am trying to rear by means of a teapot and some milk. The little mouse-deer stands very comfortably in my hand; when full grown they are about the height of Chance, with such slender limbs and beautiful black eyes. It is a pity I cannot send you some.

Did I ever mention that I sent some more tortoises by the Duke of Devonshire’s gardener, who went home in the ‘Zenobia’? He will leave them in Grosvenor Place. There are two different kinds; the spotted are very pretty, and thcir skulls are sometimes set as bracelets.

I went on Friday evening to the cathedral to