Now, I feel able to get nearer my Albury destination, and in a week or so, shall hope to be residing at Dorchester, near the Blandford of paternal recollections.

Did you, dear mother, get a letter from me directed to Albury?
I hope so, for it sets all clear: and if not, I'll set the nation against cheap postage.

I don't feel the least confidence now in the Post Office, forasmuch as they have no interest in a letter after it is paid, and many will be mislaid from haste and multiplicity.

Please to say if it came safely to hand, as I judge it important.

If you, dear mother, got my last, I have nothing more to say, and if not, I'll blow up the Post Office: unpopularity would send all the letters by carriers: but whether or not, I can't write any more, so with a due proportion of regards rightly broadcast around, accept the remainder from--Your affectionate son, M.F.T.
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