At Poonah, indeed, I need not tell you that there is no court; for the Paishwa, as you are doubtless aware, was deposed by Lord Hastings in the Pindarree War.

Am I not in fair training to be as great a bore as if I had myself been in India ?--that is to say, as great a bore as the greatest.
I am leading my watering-place life here; reading, writing, and walking all day; speaking to nobody but the waiter and the chambermaid; solitary in a great crowd, and content with solitude.

I shall be in London again on Thursday, and shall also be an M.P.From that day you may send your letters as freely as ever; and pray do not be sparing of them.

Do you read any novels at Liverpool?
I should fear that the good Quakers would twitch them out of your hands, and appoint their portion in the fire.
Yet probably you have some safe place, some box, some drawer with a key, wherein a marble-covered book may lie for Nancy's Sunday reading.

And, if you do not read novels, what do you read?
How does Schiller go on?
I have sadly neglected Calderon; but, whenever I have a month to spare, I shall carry my conquests far and deep into Spanish literature.
Ever yours T.B.M.
To Hannah and Margaret Macaulay.
London: July 2, 1832.
My dear Sisters,--I am, I think, a better correspondent than you two put together.