Good-bye, best of Fays. I shall send this letter off and write another in a few days. I will mark _outside_ the dates of my letters (and PRAY, mind and always date yours--you never do) so that you will know which to open first. God bless you, you dear _good_ fellow.--Love your fond old,
DEAREST FAY,--One line to say that this afternoon your letter of Sunday with the enclosed for Harrison reached me. It is a relief to me that you _got_ the letters, and I think your answer does very well, but as it had no cover, and that I was obliged to send it in my own name to Harrison, I added, what _you_ had better have done, that if necessary you could easily come over the beginning of November, and I rather hope they will accept that offer, as by that time the Court will have returned from Scotland (perhaps to Windsor though), and you might have a chance of being brought into contact with Albert, and you would jabber good German to him and win his heart, which _may_ be valuable to you. With regard to Watts, he said he should be too happy to do _anything_ for you, but he wished you to be thrown with Albert. He (Watts) is better and has left Malvern. I got yesterday the _Manchester Guardian_, with a sort of preliminary list of the pictures which are to be opened to the private view to-morrow. They were not then all hung, but they mention the "Romeo" as in a conspicuous place--a sombre picture, but the Romeo and Juliet finely conceived--or something to that effect. You shall hear all about it. I have got little Ffrench till Saturday, when I go to Hatchford and he home. I expect Adelaide to-morrow--we dine with her, and I _fear_ shall have ----, which will be a potent bore. There is of course no other news. Penelope Bentinck has produced a huge boy, and is quite well. John Leslie's marriage went off without any tears, and he made a very good "neat and appropriate."
God bless you, my very dear boy--you are not so fond of me as I am of you--be sure of it. Take care of yourself, and write to and love your old
Tell me all about your studies, as they interest me, and don't forget to put me up to some pretty cheap gilt-moulding for my frame.
Adelaide was pleased and touched at your seeing about her pictures. Fay, she is devotedly attached to you--you may be sure of it.