I hope that it may, for it will not only be a tremendous hit for all of us, but it will take me to London and give me the pleasure of a peep at you, a happiness to which I look forward very anxiously.

I know Mr.Tom, and like him of all things, as everybody who knows him must, and I hear that his sisters are charming.

God bless you, my dear friend.

My father joins me in every good wish, and "I am ever most affectionately yours, "M.R.

MITFORD." * * * * * A few weeks later she writes a very long letter almost entirely filled with a discussion of the desirability or non-desirability of writing in this, that, and the other "annual" or magazine.