1837-38. 



VOYAGE TO HULL. 



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me before this. I have waited to be able to tell you 

 everything as definitely as possible. Mary and Jeanie are 

 now home, both looking a great deal better, and in all 

 respects improved. Their arrival sets me free to set off 

 when I choose. Now, I am not coming up directly by one 

 of the Leith and London Steamers, but by Hull. I shall 

 arrive there on Sunday evening, stay all night with our old 

 friends, leave on Monday morning, and be in London on 

 Tuesday afternoon or evening. ... I am in no mood for 

 writing, have been so knocked about, have so much to do, 

 been so late up, and am so sleepy, that I shan't write a 

 word more. Everything it is desirable you should know, I 

 keep for oral communication. Believe me your very affec- 

 tionate, loving, sleepy brother, " GEORGE." 



A week later we have the following to his mother : 



"George Inn, Hull, Monday, 17 'tk September. 



" The best of friends are often bad advisers, and so it has 

 proved in my case ; for the ' Innisfail,' instead of arriving in 

 Hull on Sunday at twelve o'clock noon, did not get in till 

 one o'clock at midnight of Sunday, and nobody got ashore 

 till this morning. 



" On Saturday, up to eleven o'clock, P.M. when 'I turned 

 in,' the weather was most delightful, and the voyage in all 

 respects very pleasant. I did not fall asleep for an hour, 

 and then I tumbled over into a doubtful snooze. I believe 

 there was a sensitiveness among all present to any alarm, 

 from the late accident on the station; and, accordingly, 

 when the engine stopped at two o'clock in the morning, 

 I and many others awoke. I did not know what hour 

 it was then, and being aware that a gentleman and lady 

 were going ashore at Scarborough, I thought it would be 



