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Barrackpore, September 3, 1837. ,—I do not know when I wrote to you last, but it can do no harm writing again, and George asserts that this overland packet is a sure conveyance. I own I have a high opinion of ‘Overland’ himself just at this moment. On August 31 I had a letter from Robert and one from Frederic Grey, dated July 1; so, you know, it was just lawful to talk of a letter written last month from England. Curious; but the contents of those letters! What with intense interest in the novel of ‘The Young Queen,’ and political triumph, and hopelessness of finding any black bombazine for the old King, and eagerness about the elections, and the dearth of love-ribbon in the China Bazaar, and satisfaction with the Queen’s choice of ladies, and a wish to be there and to know all about it, I don’t think I have felt so much excitement since we came out. And then, though one never, by accident even, judges rightly, it does seem as if this change were everything for our ministry.