MY DEAR SMITH,

Haldimand stayed at No. 7, Connaught Place, Hyde Park, when I saw him

yesterday. But he was going to cross to Boulogne to-day.

The young Pariah seems pretty comfortable. He is of a cosmopolitan

spirit I hope, and stares with a kind of leaden satisfaction at his

spoons, without afflicting himself much about the established church.

Affectionately yours.

P.S.--I think of bringing an action against you for a new sort of breach

of promise, and calling all the bishops to estimate the damage of having

our christening postponed for a fortnight. It appears to me that I shall

get a good deal of money in this way. If you have any compromise to

offer, my solicitors are Dodson and Fogg.

[Sidenote: Miss Power.]

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