I take little Roberts

desk (which he is proud of lending me) upon my knees, before the fire in the breakfast room, that I may get as far as I can thro a letter to your B-ship, before M^r Westall comes to breakfast with us. On Saturday morning I walked from Streatham, & had like poor Cupn, only two breakfasts that day, one with Bedford, the other with Wynn. We dined with Lady Malet,

good part of the morning being uncomfortably disposed of to the deaf & dumb painter,

who is thought to be making an excellent likeness of my Beautyship. The whole of Sunday, from half past eight in the morning till nine at night EMay & I past at D^r Hughes’s, & I shall leave her to describe the music at S^t Pauls, & the fine effect of the monuments there by gaslight, with the aweful darkness of the dome above. D^r Stoddart

came there in the evening. Monday EMay <& I> went I to call on the Lambs

at Colebrook Cottage, close by the New River at Islington.

A more abominable situation I never saw & cannot conceive, – & yet because it had been a pleasant one in his childhood – & he remembered it with pleasure,

he it seems had fixed his heart upon living there. The new river is filthy, green & apparently stagnant, the garden which is of tolerable size is surrounded by houses & there are yards als very near full of unhappy cows who live knee deep in their own litter, & a population of pigs whose stench is pestilential. I would rather be hanged than live there. We called on your Aunts

as we returned, & we dined at M^r Wynns where Bedford met us Edith will relate how pleasant a visit this was, how much she likes the two eldest Miss Wynns, what delightful children the others are,

& she will tell Cuthbert of the two squirrels which run about the room, & about the people in it, – the prettiest creatures you can imagine.

Yesterday I went to Mr Westalls & got there just two hours after the birth of his third son.

Then I went down to Westminster to settle <with Wynn> about Ediths going to the play with his family when the King goes, which will be either tomorrow or Monday.

We dined at M^r Jacobs,

with whose eldest daughter you will please to tell your mother, I fell as much in love as it is proper <allowable> for me to do. She is the sort of woman that Miss Rickman

was, but handsomer, & just in her full bloom. To day I have an appointment with an American Bishop at twelve where John Coleridge will meet me if he can.

EMay goes with her Uncle & Aunt to dine at M^rs Cooksons

– & I dine with Bedford, where I shall meet Wynn, & probably my old schoolfellow George Strachey, who has purchased Bownham in Gloucestershire, – the house in which M^r T. Smith lived, when I & poor Danvers visited him.

– I shall look for D^r Bell this morning. He called here on Sunday, – & D^r & M^rs Hughes called on Monday, when we were out.

Elizas friend M^rs Hawkins

who lives in Brooke Street now, has called on EMay, & invited her to dinner. By a blunder of the servants she was not let in tho Edith was at home.