In this year of grace, 1860, I am close on eighty years of age, and though we have been a long-lived race, the span of life cannot be prolonged beyond reasonable bounds.

I am prepared to like you, and to make your home with me as happy as you could wish.

So do come at once on receipt of this, and find the welcome I am waiting to give you.

I send, in case such may make matters easy for you, a banker's draft for 200 pounds.

Come soon, so that we may both of us enjoy many happy days together.