Thank you for the clean sheets.

I wish you had read them, because I should have liked to have known that you liked the work as far as it has proceeded.

I write now to request (& I trust you are concerned in the affair as much as myself) that you will send me sub franco Sui Recti Honoris,

a pac some seeds of the Vegetable Marrow, or Quashey (vulgo

Squash) which I believe is its other name. This is the season for raising them. I use to get them from my poor friend Mr Browne of Ludlow, – but last year deprived me of him as well as of poor dear Nash

Remember Grosvenor that you & I are at a time of life when we cannot afford procrastination, – or rather proannulation in the enjoyment of each others society. Come to me while you can, while I am here, & heart-whole to welcome you. We know not what every year may bring forth, – nay not what any week – or day – or hour. Leave his Majestys X X Xs

& as soon as you can after the leaves open, & as soon as Henry can accompany you, & tell Miss Page to bespeak forthwith a pair of thicker shoes than she ever wears in London, & to make such other preparations for mountaineering & lakeing as she may think proper, for I shall not forgive you if you do not bring her.