I dare say you have heard that my uncle General Macaulay, who died last February, has left me L10,000 This legacy, together with what I shall have saved by the end of 1837, will make me quite a rich man; richer than I even wish to be as a single man; and every day renders it more unlikely that I should marry.
We have had a very unhealthy season; but sickness has not come near our house.

My sister, my brother-in-law, and their little child, are as well as possible.

As to me, I think that, as Buonaparte said of himself after the Russian campaign, J'ai le diable au corps.
Ever yours affectionately T.B.MACAULAY.
To Macvey Napier, Esq.
Calcutta: November 26, 1836.
Dear Napier,--At last I send you an article of interminable length about Lord Bacon.

I hardly know whether it is not too long for an article in a Review; but the subject is of such vast extent that I could easily have made the paper twice as long as it is.
About the historical and political part there is no great probability that we shall differ in opinion; but what I have said about Bacon's philosophy is widely at variance with what Dugald Stuart, and Mackintosh, have said on the same subject.

I have not your essay; nor have I read it since I read it at Cambridge, with very great pleasure, but without any knowledge of the subject.