My husband insists on my urging you--it is not necessary I am sure--to destroy the letter and all possible indications of its origin, should you think it worth translating.

The letter will go by a business friend of my husband's to Holland, and be got off from there.

For our business with Holland is now exceedingly brisk as you may understand.

Her neutrality is most precious to us[84].
Well, I have of course a divided mind.

I think of those old days in Liverpool and Devonshire--how far off they seem! And yet I spent all last year in England.