I arrived here this morning about 12 o clock, without mishap, & God be thanked, found all well. I have had my after dinner nap, spoken to Rumpelstilzchen, & seen Hurlyburlybuss

from the window. The children are delighted with their presents; your mother is not pleased that I should have looked so ill after being shorn to the quick at Streatham: & M^rs Coleridge has yet to witness the unpacking of the horn.

My ancles were swoln with the journey, already the swelling has begun to subside, – & the last fifteen weeks seem to me now like a dream, from which I am hardly yet awakened.

The ring fits well: not so Cupns cap, which must be let out (if that be possible) before he can wear it. He has become an expert angler, & you need not wish to see any creature happier than he is at this moment. This being Sunday evening, he is just come up stairs to see Moses.

My companions were a young man by name Bowman

or Beaumont, who having just qualif passed at Surgeons Hall

is about to settle as a practitioner between Whitehaven & Maryport, & a Miss Donald,

evidently his intended bride, a pleasing young woman. I dare say they had a pleasant journey: & it was not inconvenient to them that he was obliged to whisper having lost his voice by a cold. The first night was said by the Coachman to be the very worst which he had ever endured, for wind, rain & sleet. His great coat was literally encrusted with ice. We however were well protected within. This morning it snowed while we were crossing Stainmoor, It xx The weather cleared at sunrise, & was beautifully fine when I arrived, as if to welcome me.