[In the middle of August the Irish Tithe Bill went up to the House of Lords, where it was destined to undergo a mutilation which was fatal to its existence.] But I will not fill my paper with English politics.
I am in excellent health.

So are my sister and brother-in-law, and their little girl, whom I am always nursing; and of whom I am becoming fonder than a wise man, with half my experience, would choose to be of anything except himself.

I have but very lately begun to recover my spirits.

The tremendous blow which fell on me at the beginning of this year has left marks behind it which I shall carry to my grave.

Literature has saved my life and my reason.