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Oakfield ¹

July 12^th

My dear Papa,

How provoking that writing Spanish when one is not used to it, takes so much time, for Mamie ²and I had planned a most glorious joint letter, and there the cruel clock has just struck two for lunch, and before three the post must go, so I must content myself with adding these few lines to her letter to thank you for your’s received yesterday from Cambo. ³It must be a pretty place, especially with the advantage of such glorious weather, but you must indeed find the heat trying, and going out impossible in the middle of the day – for we cannot do it even here, especially these last two days, when there has been but little air, and an oppressive thick vapour, with a hot sun piercing through at times, unlike the usual bracing Cumberland air. All your letters have been duly received and Mama ⁴ and Ela ⁵send their thanks. Mama wrote to you on Monday from here – and I must try and send you a real letter tomorrow, as it will be the 13^th the last day you allow us to direct to Vittoria. ⁶ We were so tired on first on first arriving and so busy ever since, that it has made us all more idle than we ought to have been, but I hope we shall mend in future.

And now goodbye, dear Papa, for they all <sic> growing impatient down stairs and calling us –

Your affectionate daughter

Rosamond.