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Thursday

Dear H^y

There is a largish Port Portfolio come directed to you. It is full Will you have it go down? or is it to remain here? Lord A. ¹ is wonderfully little altered. What a change for a Man used to be fanned on a panlanquin [sic]² to be hustled about on democratic rail roads! & Stuffed into an omnibus!

I shall get y^r answer before I go

Y^r
EF

Lord A. was here some time yesterday he seemed ému ³ at entering this house & altogether grave & thoughtful of the many friends he has lost since he left England & the losses his particular friends have met with since, such as Kerry & Stavordale and Lord Holland, ⁴ he was nervous in speaking of. Even after so short a space as 6 years what quantities of events & melancholy ones occur!