“I have to acknowledge the favour of your letter of the 28th ult., and to return you my thanks for the book which accompanied it, and which you have done me the honour to inscribe to me, in terms so much too flattering.
“I shall certainly he in England some time next Spring; hut exactly at what period, I am not yet able to decide.
“I am really uninformed of the nature of the ‘rumours’ which you say are ‘afloat’ in the political world, and consequently utterly unable to suggest to you any confirmation or contradiction of them.
