I the Pa received your letter yesterday morning, & as you may like to know the course of my proceedings I take the hour between our return from Oldridge Chapel,

& our going to Crediton Church, to send you a bulletin.

After a journey with no discomfort & only one misadventure, I was landed at the Kennaways

door at one o clock. The misadventure consisted in overturning a market cart, with a woman & two men in it. The tilt saved them from any harm, but I suppose the butter & eggs suffered, & they were in such a rage that they would not suffer us to give them any assistance, so we left them in the road, vowing vengeance. It afterwards appeared that their anger was increased by an unlucky mistake of the Guards, who in the half morning twilight thinking to help the woman out from under the tilt by her arm, took hold of her knee. It is supposed there will be a law suit about it; but I believe they were to blame for keeping directly in the middle of the road, & not drawing on one side when they saw us coming.

Sir John Kennaway doses his guests & his servants with family worship, of which too much is worse than none. He edified D^r Copplestone as well as myself on the Sunday evening by reading a sermon & a long prayer after it; & with equal want of judgement he made his two little girls

(nice creatures they are,) – show off by repeating verses & extracts from M^r Irving.

They are about the size of Kate & Bel, & waltzed together very prettily. Only think of their calling one Gussy!! whose name is Augusta. Lady K.

paints – her husband ought to chuse the chapter about Jezabel

for his reading & commenting. They were very obliging & hospitable to me. Charles as good humoured as ever. He appears to remember with great pleasure every little circumstance that occurred at Keswick. The most interesting person in the family is a brother of Sir Johns

who is almost blind; a well informed, mild, patient man, whom it is impossible not to like & compassionate.

On Monday I removed to Ottery. Henry Coleridge (the Amans amantis of Sara’s book)

speaks & laughs so like Edward,

that I could have xxx supposed he had been Edward if my eyes had been shut. But he is neither so tall nor so handsome. I liked him well & his brother Frank

also. – The Colonel

seems the only fortunate one of the family in his sons. George,

tho very well disposed, appears to be much inferior to them in understanding, & Edwin

is a sort of Tony Lumpkin

upon whom education has been thrown away. The Colonel is suffering from a spasmodic affection of the stomach, which has I fear a serious appearance.

Tuesday to M^r Marriotts.

There I met M^r Barker,

– almost heart-broken by his sons

conduct, & D^r Miller of Exeter,

who married one of M^r Hewitts

sisters. Hewitt is in orders, & serves the curacy of Downton, about four miles from M^rs Mays house at Hale.

Wednesday to Exeter. There to my great disappointment I found that M^rs Browne was living fifteen miles to the westward, quite out of my tract, where it would have cost me two days to visit her. Lightfoot met me & brought me to Crediton – to a house where wife husband & children

seem to think they cannot show me kindness enough. Thursday we were to ourselves. Friday the World & his Wife dined here, & yesterday I met another World & his Wife & all their family at M^r Bullers.

This was the Great World there was Lady Duckworth

who is <herself> as big as the World, & as round; & as good-natured as possible. And there was Lady somebody else & all the grandees of the neighbourhood, the Whatsisnames, the Whatdyecallums, & the Thingambobs. Young M^r Buller

who promises like his father to be a very mild, gentlemanly & estimable man has been travelling with Duppa in Sicily; & he is well acquainted with William Heathcote.

– Great enquiries were made for you, & many wishes expressed that I had brought, & that I would bring or send you into Devonshire.

Yo el Pa.