1813: _Memoirs_, ii.

2.
She said she would write as soon as she could procure a frank.

That accommodation is, I suppose, more rare in Scotland than at this season in our neighbourhood.

I assure you the weather has been so unfavourable to out-door amusements since you left us (not but that we have had a sprinkling of fine and bright days), that little or no progress has been made in the game of the Graces; and I fear that amusement must be deferred till next summer, if we or anybody else are to see another.

Mr.
Barber has dined with us once, and my sister and Mrs.Marshall, of Halsteads, have seen his palace and grounds; but I cannot report upon the general state of his temper.