He will be a great loss to us, and I cannot but look forward with dread to the long evenings, which used to be so happy, and which will seem so lonely without Him,[13] who enlivened them so much.
Good-bye, my dearest Sister. Do not trouble yourself to answer my letters, as a letter to any part of this family does as well for the rest.
Miss Eden to Lady Buckinghamshire.
EDEN FARM,
October 25 [1814].
MY DEAR SISTER, Charlotte[14] has had a good night by the account we received this morning. The baby is wonderfully well.
Lord Francis goes to Newmarket on Sunday, and I am to go to Earl’s Court for a week, and George[15] and Willy Osborne come here. It sounds as if we were going to play Puss in the Corner on a grand scale, but I shall be glad to get back to my corner again....
George writes me word that one story about Lady Caroline Lamb[16] is, that the separation had been agreed upon, and the articles ready; that Lady Melbourne set out one morning from London to try and arrange matters, and on her arrival she found the happy couple at breakfast, and Lady Caroline drawling out—“William, some more muffin?”—and everything made up.
Mary has grown so fat she can scarcely waddle about, and flatters herself she is looking very well. I remain ever your aff. sister,
EMILY EDEN.
(Quite private)