With the help of these books I hope to keep my responsibility in order on our voyage, and in India.
Ever yours T.B.M.
To Hannah M.Macaulay.
London: January 4, 1834.
My dear Sister,--I am now buying books; not trashy books which will only bear one reading; but good books for a library.

I have my eye on all the bookstalls; and I shall no longer suffer you, when we walk together in London, to drag me past them as you used to do.

Pray make out a list of any which you would like to have.

The provision which I design for the voyage is Richardson, Voltaire's works, Gibbon, Sismondi's History of the French, Davila, the Orlando in Italian, Don Quixote in Spanish, Homer in Greek, Horace in Latin.

I must also have some books of jurisprudence, and some to initiate me in Persian and Hindostanee.