Both of them extolled my good fortune in having such a companion.
Ever yours T.B.M.
London: November--, 1833.
Dear Hannah,--Things stand as they stood; except that the report of my appointment is every day spreading more widely; and that I am beset by advertising dealers begging leave to make up a hundred cotton shirts for me, and fifty muslin gowns for you, and by clerks out of place begging to be my secretaries.

I am not in very high spirits to-day, as I have just received a letter from poor Ellis, to whom I had not communicated my intentions till yesterday.

He writes so affectionately and so plaintively that he quite cuts me to the heart.

There are few indeed from whom I shall part with so much pain; and he, poor fellow, says that, next to his wife, I am the person for whom he feels the most thorough attachment, and in whom he places the most unlimited confidence.
On the 11th of this month there is to be a dinner given to Lushington by the electors of the Tower Hamlets.

He has persecuted me with importunities to attend, and make a speech for him; and my father has joined in the request.