Your kind letter addressed to Charlotte Sqr was forwarded to me during my stay with Uncle amongst my many pleasures there. It was what afforded the greatest happiness, in every line of it was expressed genuine affection and brotherly interest. But what gratified me the most was your enclosing the newspaper because it evidently showed that you thought I had a mind to appreciate your public sentiments. In reading your speech how my immagination pictured you sitting down in the midst of so much applause thinking triumphantly within yourself after that oppose me who can. It is most amusing to hear the fuss Uncle makes about anything he puts in the papers. Dear old man, the very happiness of his existence seems to depend upon Donald. Your letters, your public career and your coming home are to him inexhaustible items of conversation even at the very Marquis of Breadalbane's table. His nephew Donald must be introduced and from that then to the topic of the prettiest girl in the parish. Really Uncle is a most original character. I often wish I was clever, that I might write a volume in which Uncle's originality would be more ludicrous than fiction. Catherine has sent him yours of 1st Decr which we have just received that he may see for himself the happy amusement of the prospect of your being here so soon. We were all indeed beginning to think that your intention of coming was never to come to a reality. We now