| Description | She thinks there is no man in the Presidency who writes more faithfully than John and she wishes to follow his stations. Mary asks if it does no strike him that the English eclipse expeditions were bungled and disorganised. [J Norman] Lockyer hurried off to meet Colonel [James Francis] Tennant but never saw him. Tennant has written to ask if John saw Lockyer and to say that he did not see 1474. She refers to 'sweet little sketches', but they are not what she asked for, being of Collingwood, therefore she has done some herself. Mary has also made some pretty toilet articles for John's mother, which Esther urges should be sent to Captain Herschel for his opinion, and she describes these. She has discovered where the Jacksons live, and notes their hospitality. They have sold all their things in the expectation of taking a troopship to England. |