a report that you had got married and are now almost led to believe that such is the case as uncle says you are much longer in writing this sometime back than hitherto. I will not presume to go the length of wishing you the usual compliments untill I have more authentic information upon this point. In my last I promised to give you an account of how I was progressing with my studies and really I find it a most disagreeable task to say so much about self that as Catherine is in town I shall leave that part to her. But she is in such depressing spirits at present that I do not think I shall get her to do it. The thing she is very unhappy about is wondering how my education can be accomplished as she seems so pleased at the improvement I have already made and so thoroughly anxious that I should at least get a year of it. You cannot think my dear brother how extremely desirous she has been all along to have me