I cannot understand at all why you have received no letters from me, seeing that I always wrote twice a week, regularly....
I observe with horror that I have not formally invited your father; though that is a matter of course.

My last letter will have set that right.

I ought not to have written to you on picture notepaper, seeing that we are in deep mourning for my poor Aunt, the Landgravine,[4] but it was quite impossible for me to write to you on mourning paper....
_But this will not interfere with our marriage in the least; the mourning will be taken off for that day, and for two or three days after, and then put on again._ Everything went off exceedingly well yesterday.

There was an immense multitude of people, and perhaps never, certainly not for a long time, have I been received so well; and what is remarkable, I _was not nervous_, and read the speech really well.

The Tories began immediately afterwards to conduct themselves very _badly_ and to plague us.