But let this suffice.

None but myself can know my full obligations." Next year begins--"As 1829 gave me a wife, 1830 gave me a church, for on the 14th January Bishop Sandford died, and the whole charge was offered to me, which I undertook for three years without a curate--i.e.without a man-curate, for a most effective assistant I had in dearest Isabella, who wrote to my dictation many a weary hour." Except a little parcel of letters touching the negotiation with Bishop Skinner, and the Aberdeen congregation in 1822, I find no letters of Ramsay till he wrote to one of the dear old friends at Frome announcing a visit with his wife.
Mr.RAMSAY to Miss STUART SHEPPARD, Fromefield, Frome, Somerset.
7 Albany Court, London, 9th June [1831].
My dear Stuart, I have been in such a whirl and such a turmoil since I came here that I have hardly had time to collect my scattered thoughts to write you a line.

I have seen much and heard much, but shall not attempt to give you any account _now_, as I hope (please God) we shall meet ere long.

Mrs.Ramsay's brother-in-law, the Bishop of Nova Scotia, is here--he preached the annual sermon for the anniversary meeting of the Charity Children in St.Paul's.

I went as his chaplain, but of this more hereafter.