| Description | Written from Hale, to the English Legation, Constantinople.
Delight at hearing he is happy in Naples and comfortable with Lord and Lady Ponsonby: her reading Travels in Turkey by Augustus Slade: sister Georgiana a source of anxiety, suffering fron rheumatic fever but able to nurse her baby and getting better under excellent care: her staying at home in spite of wish to be at Froyle, where Ernest has been to cheer up Sainsbury: building to go ahead, after Mr Herbert's estimate of £6800, with Mr Repton being the architect also making it cheaper:having £5000 to sell out, saving the rest out of income, living quietly in Camerton and giving up idea of going to Scotland as too expensive: half of debt to Mr Deffell to be wiped off on 1 May: coal business making loss of £400pa, but with possibility of new pit being opened: no chance for Ernest over good curacy: patronising play at Salisbury: drowning of George Cottle (Mrs Dilly's father) at Camerton, blown into the canal.
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