"Bertie is sending the letters of his great-grandmother, Maria Josepha Holroyd. We have not read them yet, but they sound amusing."

"It is a great comfort to have that wretched Lady Scott landed in prison." Frank Russell "has come out of the trial with a better reputation than ever before." "It is she undoubtedly who had his house burned down, and she has tried to bribe his servants to poison him."

Hannah Whitall Smith has added a postscript to this letter.