Mr. Charles Mackay.
Office of "All the Year Round,"
Thursday, 21st April, 1870.
My dear Mackay,
I have placed "God's Acre." The prose paper, "The False Friend," has lingered, because it seems to me that the idea is to be found in an introduced story of mine called "The Baron of Grogzwig" in "Pickwick."
Be pleasant with the Scottish people in handling Johnson, because I love them.
Ever faithfully.
Sir John Bowring.
Gad's Hill, Thursday, 5th May, 1870.
My dear Sir John,