First a drawing book of coloured paper, – that sort of tint which is given by tobacco water:

the size about 9 ½ inches long 6 ½ wide. Secondly a bottle of a certain preparation of lamp black

or ivory black (I know not which) used for painting screens & such things & sold at Fielders N^o. 2 Greek Street, Soho.

She has excellent use of her fingers. If poor Nash had been living, it would have delighted him to see the extraordinary progress she has made.

I am nearly recovered, thank God, after an attack of an ugly nature. I have always apprehended that the violent catarrh which for the last twenty years has regularly seized me with the first warm weather would at last effect a lodgement in my chest, & this year for the first time it has given serious indication of such a tendency. After trying squills

in vain, & ipecacuanha lozenges,

I have nearly removed it by paregoric, taking at the same time calomel & dandelion to counteract the effect which the smallest possible quantity of laudanum produces upon my liver.

To day for the first time I have thought myself sufficiently free from any feverish symptom to venture upon wine.

Miss Wilbrahams marriage

took place last week. Her brother

came to give her away, & returned immediately. The history of the courtship, with the talk, & correspondence, & broils that it has occasioned, would make a volume, in which neither Tom nor his wife would appear to any advantage, – both having acted very intemperately, & very foolishly. He has the vice of tetchiness in a very great degree, & his wife in a greater, if that be possible. For me, I always bear in mind one of the first maxims which I teach my children. – The least that is said. Is the soonest mended.

I look shortly to hear from John May saying when we may expect to see him, – about Monday week I think.

Your visit I suppose will be in September, when London is emptiest. Tell me how you all are, for it seems a long while since I have heard of you.