342 MEMOIR OF JOHN WILSON. 



and he will be my banker for small sums. I will also send a receipt, 

 which you will get on the 6th of August, for £30 odd ; but I will 

 explain how in my next. 



"Take good care of all yourselves, and be good boys and girls. 

 Love to Mag, Moll, and Umbs. As for Blair, he cuts me so up 

 that I fear to send him even my compliments. I am glad to hear 

 of Moll's voice being high. Keep Mag to the guitar and new songs. 

 Yours ever affectionately, John Wilson." 



The next is to his daughter Mary : — 



" Union Hotel, Charing Cross, 

 July 16, 1832. 



" My dear Mart : — I have received your kind epistle, and am 

 rather pleased to find you all well. I write these few lines in a 

 great hurry, to tell you to wrap up in a parcel, two silver soup- 

 spoons, two teaspoons, and two silver forks, and direct them to me 

 at Union Hotel, Charing Cross, per mail, without delay. See them 

 booked at the Office. Young ladies take such things to school, and 

 young gentlemen, it seems, to sea. See that the direction is dis- 

 tinct. Write to me by the same post, or if any thing prevent, by 

 the one following ; but direct my letter, care of Captain Tatnal, 

 No. 5 Park Terrace, Greenwich. I have just time to say God bless 

 you all, but in a few days will write a long letter telling you of our 

 intended motions, as we hope to be off by the 26th. Don't believe 

 any thing about the ' Vernon' in any newspaper. Be good girls 

 and boys till my return, and do not all forget your old Dad. Love 

 to mamma, and tell me if you have heard farther from Johnny. 

 Thy affectionate father, J. Wilson." 



TO MRS. WILSON. 



"No. 2 Park Terrace, Greenwich, 

 Friday. 

 "Ma bonne Citoyenne: — I am now fairly established here in 

 lodgings, that is, in a room looking into Greenwich Park, with 

 liberty to take my meals in a parlor belonging to the family. The 

 master thereof is a Frenchman, and a Professor of Languages, and 

 the house swarms Avith frogs, that is, children. I pay fourteen 

 shillings a week for lodging, which is a salutary change from the 

 hotel. I dine with Tatnal or Williams, or at a shilling ordinary, 



