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she will do. ... I feel a little flat this week after the ex- 

 citement of the last, but fa ira. Farewell, my dear Emma, 

 with warmest love to you all. 



Mrs Josiah Wedgivood to her daughters Fanny 



and Emma. 



MY DEAR GIRLS, MAER ' Ma y mh > 1831 



... I feel very grateful to Mrs Holland for the pleasant 

 visit you have had with her, and to her good-natured 

 daughters for promoting your pleasure so much as they 

 have done. We have now pretty well done with our New- 

 castle bustles, as they were yesterday finished by a dinner 

 given to your father by the Mayor and Burgesses, from 

 which they did not come home till near 12 o'clock. There 

 dined about 90, and they were drinking toasts and cheering 

 all the evening. Harry and Frank dined there, and had 

 their healths drunk and returned thanks in neat speeches, 

 &c. Frank had one compliment paid him, for his can- 

 vassing accomplishments, which I did not expect, viz. that 

 he was so good a canvasser that the gentleman who spoke 

 believed that if it had been for himself, he would have been 

 returned voila ! 



We have beautiful summer weather now, which I men- 

 tion for the honour of Staffordshire, as it sometimes lies 

 under a bad name for weather. I have had a delightful 

 letter from your aunt Caroline [Drewe] giving a glorious 

 account of Edward's entry into his own country, and of 

 the delight given and received by Adele on the occasion, 

 who looked, she said, quite lovely when she was introduced 

 to his tenants, and received them charmingly. 



Mr Hulme comes here regularly every Sunday, and 

 dines after evening service. His conversation is too like 

 Blackwood's Magazine, but he is cheerful and we don't 

 mind him. Gipums is getting larger, and I am beginning 

 to sigh over the puppies who are so soon to meet a watery 

 grave, mais quefaire ? . . . 



