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3 Morpeth Terrace

[date added later: July 3 67

Dear George – Tis quite a time since I've written to you - & so I will now. You won't know where 3 M. T. is I guess nor how I'm here. Mrs Lushington invited me to dine with her to meet some curage's Mr. Beesby the curagest, of the curages being one – I liked it v. much & heard [illeg] in red re

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publicanism to my hearts content. […]

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lucky lucky me. […]

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Frank's room for a week […] I daresay you didn't read Mill's admirable speech. I read

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it to Papa whilst they were at Cambridge. He was very unwilling but I just made him. I felt very curious of the jolly visit they all seemed to have had.—

They seemed too jolly to have found out what horrid weather they had had as for Amy you never heard such raptures

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as she was in— goodness gracious me.

I've never discussed Burke's letter. I must & will — This ought to have been to him only I've got so in the habit of writing to you-

Goodbye George

H.E.D.

What a dull letter this is

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as the jossi always say a useless remark as the reader always finds it out for himself. Whatever expression I've used in one line I've said again in the next – which is such a sad fatality in style. Papa has an idea that correcting his proofs will teach me style

What do you think of this letter as the result?