You had better return to town like me, and put an 

 erratum at the end of your almanac, for June read Janu- 

 ary. Summer was made to be felt and enjoyed, not to 

 be taken for better or worse like a spouse, iu whom one 

 has no pleasure any longer. 



— ^Horace Walpole to the Countess of Upper Ossoht, 

 London, June 13, 1782. 



