| Description | Written from the Monastery.
Pleasure at receipt of letter, with so little to do there, and at his having enjoyed himself on holiday: prospect of peace and his surprise at it not being mentioned in their letters: hope of sending a few sketches: remembrance to old John: meeting Rooper once or twice, his being a "gawky looking humbug" but useful to the men of the regiment: the place being better than expected, if more primitive than camp: sale of a beautiful little Arab horse, which was fast but would not allow luggage on its back, and loss of a nice well-bred little horse, being stolen at the steeplechase races, when lent to a bugler: remembrance to old Billy
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