per annum." Again, at a later date, July 24th, in the same year, she writes:-- "I am driving on with my small matter as well as I can.

I have written to all the friends on whom I have the slightest claim, and to some on whom I have no claim; Mrs.B., for example.

On her, also, I have actually made bold to call.

She was exceedingly polite; regretted that her children were already at school at Liverpool; thought the undertaking a most praiseworthy one, but feared I should have some difficulty in making it succeed on account of the _situation_.

Such is the answer I receive from almost every one.