It has been a great privilege to see this city and its environs with so learned a man; I wish you could have shared it.

Yesterday he made up a party and we went to Passage, which you may remember in Father Prout's verses:-- 'The town of Passage is both large and spacious, And situated upon the say; 'Tis nate and dacent, and quite adjacent To come from Cork on a summer's day.
There you may slip in and take a dippin' Fornent the shippin' that at anchor ride; Or in a wherry cross o'er the ferry To Carrigaloe, on the other side.' Dr.La Touche calls Father Prout an Irish potato seasoned with Attic salt.

Is not that a good characterisation?
Good-bye for the moment, as I must see about Benella's luncheon.
Yours affectionately S.P..