
          Recd. June 22.

 [Illustrated letterhead]
 [illustration caption] THE TERRACE, ANGLESEY near GOSPORT

 Selborne Hants [Hampshire]
 June 17th 1850

 My dear Sir,

 Your young friend Mr Gomez
 faithfully executed the commission you entrusted him
 with of conveying to me your kind and valuable
 presents of pamphlets, but I regret to say that in
 consequence of his having got on board at [?] of a
 boat got to Southampton instead of to Ryde, he
 was conveyed in a direction the very opposite to that he
 intended to take, and being obliged as he said in his note
 to be in London immediately, I was deprived of the pleasure
 of making his acquaintance and of hearing of you from
 his own mouth. I wrote to him at his London temporary
        