Volume 58: Sir George Macleay correspondence, 1848-1880: No. 539
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[Page 539]
Jny 16th
Pendell Court
Bletchingley,
Surrey.
My dear old Friend
You will have learned long ago from previous letters that I had changed my intention as to [indecipherable] wandering, but you wd. I [indecipherable] calculate [indecipherable] from letters of [indecipherable] finding me still in England. Yet it did [indecipherable] from one cause or another I have not been able "to make tracks for South or West and am still shivering in this most beastly of all beastly cllmates. Did I ever tell you of an experience that [indecipherable]. Lady Macarthur's mother [indecipherable] to me some [indecipherable] English wintry weather. I was taking her down to her carriage in a storm of sleet with a cruel [indecipherable] wind blowing & as I put her in said dreadful weather Mrs. [indecipherable] is it not. [indecipherable]
[In left margin]
at length Mrs. Forster to send me things. Keep him [indecipherable] up to his promise and now good bye frm. yr. most affy,
Geo: Macleay
[indecipherable] has been very ill, with Gout, but is getting all right again I hope.