report. She says she don't wonder, since "Conrad is so

like

." It is odd that one, who knows me so thoroughly, should tell me this to my face. However, if she don't know, nobody can.

Mackintosh is, it seems, the writer of the defensive letter in the

Morning Chronicle

. If so, it is very kind, and more than I did for myself.

Told

[Murray]

to secure for me Bandello's Italian Novels

[3]