Wellington.
In spite of this sudden resumption of cordiality, Miss J. did not hear from the Duke again for over five months. But the letter then is kindly, bearing no trace of the harshness that marked his epistles written a couple of years earlier.
London, July 31, 1849.
My dear Miss J.,—I have been at Windsor Castle since Monday from whence I have only now returned. I have to acknowledge the receipt of several letters from you written with your usual kindness, of motive as well as of sentiment and expression.
I congratulate you upon your success upon Mrs. L.'s Nephew!
I hope that you may go to the Seaside during the period of the fine season. Whether you are to derive benefit from the air or Bathing; it will be more beneficial during fine weather than after or even during the Storm of the Equinox.
It is impossible for me to say at what period Parliament will be prorogued.
I thank you for the beautiful Lines which you have sent me.
One of your Letters was written on Sunday the 28th, another on Monday the 29th, and a third on Tuesday the 30th.
I hope that this may reach you this evening. But it is late, and I am afraid it may not.