nchitis, and go on with his own biography.

He asks me when _Handbook_ will be done? Please to tell him
that it is done and printing, but that it runs double the
length which was contemplated: however, it will be a _queer_
book, and tell him that we reserve it until his return to
_review_ it. I am now on the point of quitting this pretty
place and making for my home at Hevitre, where we trust to
arrive next Thursday.

Present my best compliments to your mother, and believe me,
your faithful and obedient servant,

RCH. FORD.

When you write to Don Jorge thank him for his letter.

To George Borrow, Esq., Oulton Hall, Lowestoft.

123 PARLIAMENT STREET,
GROSVENOR SQUARE, _Feb. 17, 1845._

DEAR BORROW,--_El hombre propose pero Dios es que dispose._ I
had hope to have run down and seen you and yours in your quiet
Patmos; but the Sangrados will it otherwise. I have never been
quite free from a tickling pain since the bronchitis of last
year, and it has recently assumed the form of extreme
relaxation and irritation in the uvula, which is that pendulous
appendage which hangs over the orifice of the throat. Mine has
become so seriously elongated that, after submitting for four
days last week to its being burnt with caustic every morning in
the hopes that it might thus crimp and contract itself, I have
been obliged to have it amputated. This has left a great
soreness, which militates against talking and deglutition, and
would render our charming chats after the Madeira over la
cheminea del _cueldo_ inadvisable. I therefore defer the visit:
my Sangrado recommends me, when the summer advances, to fly
away into change of air, change of scene; in short, must seek
an _hejira_ as you made. How strange the coincidence! but those
who have wandered much about require periodical migration, as
the encaged quail twice a year beats its breast against the
wires.

I am not quite determined where to go, whether to Scotland and
the sweet heath-aired hills, or to the wild rocks and clear
trout streams of the Tyrol; it is a question between the gun
and the rod. If I go north assuredly si Dios quiere I will take
your friendly and peaceful abode in my way.

As to my immediate plans I can say nothing before Thursda