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Millburn Tower ¹
Tuesday.

My dear Papa,

Mama ² is gone to Edinburgh, so she commissioned me to answer your letter and send the portraits for Lady Ilchester. ³ We chose the best and I hope she will like them, though I do not think either of them does Tilly ⁴justice. Mama will be very glad to have Uncle William’s ⁵ and Lady Ilchester’s to add to her collection. We are just come in from a long walk, so I have only a few minutes before post time. It is exceedingly fine and pleasant, but, as with you, grown quite cool, and some days since you left have been very windy and showery. I hope you will receive this in time as you propose leaving so very soon, for the letters take two whole days in coming.

Please give my love to Aunt Caroline ⁶and Ernestine, ⁷ and ask the former how she likes the new cartes de visite of Tilly and her husband, ⁸ for there is only one in this collection she has seen before, that of Tilly sitting, by Ross and Thomson. ⁹Perhaps she would like Tilly to send her one of the other.

I have no time for more, so goodbye, dear Papa; love from all,

Your affectionate daughter
Rosamond.

The ink is of a shocking colour!