GORDON, You are kind in noticing with thanks my rambling notes.[108] We have had here a few days of delicious summer weather.
[107] _Memoirs_, ii.

223.
[108] On a proposed tour.
It appeared with the suddenness of a pantomimic trick, stayed longer than we had a right to expect, and was as rapidly succeeded by high wind, bitter cold, and winter snow, over hill and dale.
I am not surprised that you are so well pleased with Mr.Quillinan.

The more you see of him the better you will like him.

You ask what are my employments.

According to Dr.Johnson they are such as entitle me to high commendation, for I am not only making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, but a dozen.