you have, by mistake, put only a part of your letter in your envelope,
and so sent it off unfinished to me.

I left Carolside, to my great regret, yesterday. I came in Mrs.
Mitchell's carriage to within fourteen miles of Edinburgh, where I
joined the railroad. She accompanied me thus far, and then returned
home. At Edinburgh I transferred myself immediately to the Glasgow
train, and so came on, without being able to ascertain whether Cecilia
Combe and Lizzie Mair are at home or not.

Mrs. Mitchell and Lady M----, and a party of their friends, are coming
to Glasgow to-morrow. They will stay at the same inn where I am, and go
to the theatre every night that I play, so that I do not feel yet as if
I had taken leave of them; and Lady M---- intends going on with me to
Dundee, where I am going to act when I have finished my engagement here
and at Greenock.

Is it not too provoking that the York manager has at length found out
that he can afford to give me my terms, and now writes to me to beg that
I will go and act in York at the beginning of next month? which, of
course, I cannot, as I am to be three weeks in Edinburgh before I return
to England.

Neither you nor Dorothy mention your winter plans. Have you none made
yet?...

I do not think, dear Hal, that you have ever heard me express a positive
rejection of phrenology, for the simple reason that, never having taken
the pains thoroughly to study it, it would ill become me to do so. At
the same time, you know, I have at various times lived much in the
society of the principal professors of the science in this country, and
they have occasionally taken pains to explain a good deal of their
system to me. I have also read a good many of their books, and have had
a great personal affection and esteem both for Mr. Combe and his
excellent brother. But, in spite of all this, and my entire agreement
with almost all their physiological doctrines, phrenology, as I have
hitherto seen and heard it, has a positive element of inconclusiveness
to me, and I doubt if by studying it I should arrive at any other
opinion, since all the opportunities I have enjoyed of hearing it
discussed and seeing it acted upon have left my mind in this frame
regarding it. I believe myself to have no prejudice on this subject, for
I have longed all my life to know something positive and certain about
this wonderful machine which we carry about with us, or which carries us
about with it, and incline to ag