Letter from Mary Cornwallis Herschel, to [John Herschel] She has just finished 'The Spectator' and thought the article on the Prince and the Press was good. She is better, although coughing from 4.00am, taking 'a dram' [morphine] after 10.00am. She has had a longing for beer, and took half a glass, and has ordered the carriage. Mary discusses the post, letters to Collingwood, and corrects her previous information on the bank receipt. She is filling a scrap-book featuring the old letters of Sir Thomas Cornwallis, which would 'rejoice the heart of a collector'. 2 February 1872