I rhyme at Hampstead with a great deal of facility, for nothing interrupts me but kind calls to something pleasant; and though all this makes parting painful, it will, I hope, make me resolute to enter upon my duties diligently when I return.
I am too much indulged.

Except a return of pain, and that not severe, I have good health; and if my walks are not so long, they are more frequent.

I have seen many things and many people; have seen Mr.Southey and Mr.Wordsworth; have been some days with Mr.Rogers, and at last have been at the Athenaeum, and purpose to visit the Royal Institution.
I have been to Richmond in a steamboat; seen also the picture-galleries and some other exhibitions; but I passed one Sunday in London with discontent, doing no duty myself, nor listening to another; and I hope my uneasiness proceeded not merely from breaking a habit.

We had a dinner social and pleasant, if the hours before it had been rightly spent; but I would not willingly pass another Sunday in the same manner.
I have my home with my friends here (Mrs.Hoare's), and exchange it with reluctance for the Hummums occasionally.
Such is the state of the garden here, in which I walk and read, that, in a morning like this, the smell of the flowers is fragrant beyond anything I ever perceived before.

It is what I can suppose may be in Persia or other oriental countries--a Paradisiacal sweetness.