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 have exactly three hairs left, and two of them — are grey.

ours most affectionately, F. H. Eden.

FROM THE HON. EMILY EDEN TO ——.

Saturday, July 11, 1841.

In despair at the heat, which has prevented my trying to write to you for three days, I have told them to open all the doors and all the windows and the blinds an hour too soon, and have sot myself down in the draught, and, upon the whole, I prefer the blast of the furnace to the furnace itself; it 1s a change at least, and it has invigorated me to writing pitch. Moreover I can see the sky; and don’t you opine that that black cloud is going to end in a torrent? I was i sure that you would say so, but then you are — only just arrived and know nothing; the rains