Autograph letter signed : London, to [Julius Charles Hare], 1840 August 1.

Informing him that he is planning on setting out the next day on an excursion by horseback to the seacoast through Surrey, asking Hare if he will be at home to receive him for a visit, and requesting "a few words about the route"; going on to add to his prospective host, "I hope you have no Ladies! My wardrobe contained in a saddle-valise of not many square-inches in extent, is like to be of the most Scythian description: indeed the chief article is a Macintosh,--one cannot dine in that with Ladies!", and asking for his "prayers for this expedition", as "Nothing so remarkable in the riding way has been undertaken, I think, since Quixote took the road."