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not prevent me from being very happy to see her. Our 

 attachment as lovers has long been at an end, and when 

 people live at as great a distance as we have done for 

 some time past, it is ridiculous to think of it ; but I have 

 really the greatest friendship and regard for her, more 

 than I have for anybody in the world, except yourself, and 

 there is nothing I would not do for her. I have been too 

 long accustomed to live with her not to like her, or to be 

 able to forget her, and there is nothing that would give 

 me more pain than not to be able to live with her upon a 

 footing of great intimacy and friendship ; but I am always 

 afraid of every event where women are concerned, they are 

 all so exceedingly wrong-headed. 



I am just come from White's. I found nobody there ; 

 everybody is gone out of town. Pray bring me two or 

 three bottles of perfume to put amongst poAvder, but do 

 not let me have anything that has the least smell of amber 

 or musk. I wish also you would bring me some patterns 

 of spring velvets and silks for furs, and that you would 

 make inquiry at Calais about my black silk coat lined 

 with an astraJcaii; you have a memorandum about it. 

 Farewell ! my dear George. — Yours very affectionately, 



March and R. 



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Piccadilly, Thursday. 

 My dear George, — Letters that go in trunks never 

 arrive, and consequently I have not yet got the one you 

 say you have sent of six sheets of paper, which I long for 



