| Description | Mary transcribes 'two choice morsels'; from a paper on Thomas Fuller in the 'Cornhill Magazine' and some prose-poetry from Sir Thomas Browne. She has received John's letter of 5 March. Esther has not heard from friends for three months and she was glad to have the missent letter. She notes John's punctiliousness but thinks he should have opened the Collingwood letter addressed to her as it would contain material for them both. 'Fancy's little outbreak is remarkable', she thinks, and Emma's proposed return to England should not be thought wrong. Mary thinks that John's mother has no right to judge the case. She has received two of John's letters, each a contrast, and she may send one of them home. Mary has sometime been oppressed by their different circumstances, her ease and his hardships. She ought to be packing to go to Silk's [Hotel]. She notes that Roger [Tichborne] is committed to Newgate for perjury and exchanges periodicals with John. |