| Description | He gives thanks for sending three boxes of tea and asks the price, so that he can transfer the amount. He asks if Herschel is now at Mussoorie and at the same house as last year. He describes the great heat, and his attempt to get to Mussoorie for duty at the depot there, but his chief is lazy in business and he has not replied to Byers's application. 'The Chief prefers ladies' society, and picnics, to looking over papers', he states, saying that a former favourite, Mrs Vesey, had smallpox and no-one ventured to tell his Chief, owing to his 'awful rages'. |