Letter from Basil Hall, place not specified, to an unidentified recipient, 1828? : autograph manuscript signed.

I return you Mr. Laws' very amusing & characteristic Letter & join heartily in your wishes that he were thirty years younger. I wish you could spare us the first 2 pages - they are lively & would serve as a memento of this worthy old gentleman for whom I really feel a very strong kindliness. I have half a mind to ask him for his plan for India - only it might lead me into longer correspondence then I have leisure for. I write, too, with all my heart in our venerable friends good wishes for the success of the Intelligence & of this I have no doubt - more especially if you adhere resolutely to the golden maxims of controversy - never to treat people as they deserve - & never to impute bad motives - be the conduct of your adversaries which it may - a third might be added - but I suspect you will be saying 'Why you are teaching your Granny to suck eggs!' & so I hold my tongue. Pray send back the little book containing the List of Introductory Letters - as I wish to show it to a friend from the West."