Autograph letter signed : Denmark Hill, [to Effie], [1848] Monday evening [Jan.] 24.

Saying he has been re-reading her letter in comfort and exultation at having succeeded in making her rude to the Gardners. Afterwards, one regrets rudeness, but at the time it does good to boys who think too much of themselves. Not that he wants her to be unkind to the Gardners--but merely to dislike them. She is not sufficiently discriminating in those she likes, and he supposes that next she'll be sending the Gardners cards and bridecake! When they are alone, he hopes they will be like Mrs. Sheale and her husband, but he has a horror of showing his feelings in public, and before others will habitually treat her almost like anybody else for whom he feels regard and respect. Most newly married people who are much in love make themselves ridiculous if not disagreeable before others. This morning he went to town with Beborne Gordon, who brought some nice stories about Oxford--e.g., a large rat's nest found behind the dining room side-board of the Dean of Westminster's. Monday afternoon: after getting her delightful letter he could not keep up his mind on Mr. Dale's sermon. After he gets settled in another room, he does not doubt he will like it as well as his study, but he is sure they will be very uncomfortable in their furnished house. Like Mr. Scheele, he will be away all day until four--working in the British Museum or etching in his Denmark Hill study, while she calls or receives callers. But they won't be comfortable before they have a permanent home in the country. He is sending her "a sheet or two" of a French novel to be translated and rewritten, as task work, and will send more when this is completed. John Tweddale is wasting away, but all hope is not gone.