I answer your note by return of post, in order that you may know that
the Stereoscopic Nottage has not written to me yet. Of course I will not
lose a moment in replying to him when he does address me.
We shall be greatly pleased to see you again. You have been very, very
often in our thoughts and on our lips, during this long interval.
And "she" is near you, is she? O I remember her well! And I am still of
my old opinion! Passionately devoted to her sex as I am (they are the
weakness of my existence), I still consider her a failure. She had some
extraordinary christian-name, which I forget. Lashed into verse by my
feelings, I am inclined to write:
My heart disowns
Ophelia Jones;
only I think it was a more sounding name.
Are these the tones--
Volumnia Jones?
No. Again it seems doubtful.
God bless her bones,
Petronia Jones!