Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to her mother, 1848 July 4.

Published pp. 115-117, with two omissions: (1) she doubts whether she can send an account of their doings, for three reasons: 1 - the intolerable heat; 2 - a performance of Messiah in the Theatre directly opposite--"very grand music," to which she can't help listening; 3 - John is at the table drawing one of Dr. Acland's five tortoises, which is always pulling his head in and escaping; (2) all the way home, John lamented that he knew no one with whom she could go to one of the capital balls held every night. Although she has never mentioned the subject or thought of it, he wants her to dance, and intends to take her to some London dancing parties in the winter. She hopes her father and the children are well, and Aunt Jessie and her children. Mrs. Acland has a six-months old child, "really pretty with black eyes"; "she is a good creature, and John says she is perfection if she was not plain and didn't wear spectacles." [P.S.] Local gossip, ending with behest that her mother tell her about money matters at home, for she would be uneasy if she thought she was not told.