Autograph letter signed : Spa, to Jane Brookfield, [1848] Aug. 1-5.

Describing his journey to Spa, noting that he shared a railway car with three Catholic priests, and telling amusing anecdotes about them; discussing his difficulty finding a hotel, remarking that the first two hotels turned him away because of his little portmanteau, remarking that "these miserable miscreants did not see by my appearance that I was not a flunkey but on the contrary a great and popular author" and joking that he intends to commission two paintings depicting the hotel proprietors "refusing a bedchamber to the celebrated Titmarsh." Outlining his activities after he successfully secured a hotel room, describing a blue-eyed Flemish woman who overate excessively at dinner and mentioning new acquaintances. Mentioning his early-morning walk that day and his intention to sketch, but noting that "it is more respectful to Nature to look at her and gaze with pleasure rather than to sit down with pert assurance and begin to take her portrait." Discussing the gambling tables and describing a young woman who looks remarkably like Mrs. Brookfield. Mentioning that he has acquired two novels by Fielding, noting that Amelia gives a delightful portrait but that Joseph Andrews is "coarse and careless." Musing on the possibility of traveling immediately to Bonn, remarking that the best way to travel is "never to know where you are going, until the moment Fate says Go." Asking her to give his address to his daughter Anny.