Autograph letter signed : London, to Anna Wilbraham Grosvenor, 1831 October 3.

Apologizing for not having responded earlier, but writing that Wilbraham's first letter reached her when she was "in a state of indisposition that really unfitted me from holding a Pen" and the second has just followed her to Eliot Vale, where she has passed the last fortnight with Frederica Locke; saying that she has had a letter "full of long, copious, & comfortable intelligence" from Sarah Harriet Burney (who she refers to as "the dear Wanderer"); writing that Sarah, who is in Italy, expresses some homesickness, "for she frankly declares that however bewitching is a foreign residence, first from its novelty, next from its pleasure, & lastly from its œconomy, still the desire & utility & security of being near native friends as life advances, makes all serious wishes lead us to nestle in our own Nests, when we are no longer alert enough to rove from clime to clime, nor vigorous enough to live almost as much without doors as within"; mentioning that Sarah is staying with an Italian family at the moment, but she "only waits to find a proper compagnon de voyage for re-instating herself again in old Inghilterra"; adding that, as soon as she returns, Sarah promises to pay a call on Anna Wilbraham and her sisters Elizabeth and Emma.