28 October.
My dear Henry.
I have no great deal to say or much time to express that little - but 1 as I am getting away from the Carlisle post Office - I send you word of it that you may direct your letter to S: St 2 not that I am yet going there but that they will forward my letters from thence. I wonder not to have heard from you, & hope that you have been better occupied - My Tour has been shortened considerably we did not go to Glasgow but came from Drumlanrig 3 to Edinburgh with which place I was very much struck, it is the most singular Town I have ever seen - we were there 3 days & are now proceeding South - I shall be at Ld Granthams 4 for one week by the time you receive this letter then at Sprotbrough 5 till the 20th Nov. & at Cambridge by the last day of the month - but I will let you know the exact day time enough - I am sure you will have been very much shocked at poor Charles FitzGerald's 6 miserable end - & have felt for me, & my sisters great distress of mind in thus losing a 4th grown up child.7 & in such a horrid way. The state of cultivation in Scotland has much disappointed me (though in some parts it is beautiful) & the habitations of the poorer orders are wretched beyond description - We were unlucky in the time of year we were at Edin: none of the clever people happened to be there & the courts of justice being closed I had no opportunity of hearing any of their eloquent speakers which I was very anxious to do - my sport shooting has been much less than I expected amounting indeed to nothing. God bless you my dear boy Pray write to me
Yr ever affe Friend
C.F.
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