| Description | Written from Brussels.
Being glad to see his handwriting, which she finds little changed: the happiness it gives to Sir Thomas and his sisters: her pleasure at his having served 5 years in India, unhurt and unchanged, with Sophy saying he is not even burnt brown: remebering the last time she saw him, at breakfast in the old dining room at Brussels: not dwelling on the sad past and looking to the bright future, with his return clearing the dark clouds over his father and sisters [his mother having died in July 1861].
Dated 13 June, no year given, but reference to end of 5 years' service in India makes a probable year of 1863 |