Allow me to take this opportunity of expressing my satisfaction at finding how completely Mrs.
E.B.R enters into the friendship which has so long existed between _us_, and at seeing how fully prepared she is to appreciate your kindness to myself and her; in short, to find that she loves you all now, as if she had known you as long as I have.

May we never lose sight of these feelings! We saw Oxford to-day--a good thing, but in detail not equal to Cambridge--in general effect far superior.

Gloster pleased me: the tower and cloisters surpassingly fine.

People do not roar enough about the steeple of St.Mary's, Oxford--it is _the finest_ in England, superior I think to that of Salisbury.

Are you aware that there is a modern church at Oxford in the pure Norman style?
My visit to Frome has given me (except in parting) unmixed satisfaction.