hat none are likely to apply but a set of needy
speculators; indeed, there is a general dearth of money. How is
Dr. M.? God bless you!

GEORGE BORROW.

To Mrs. MacOubrey

DEAR HENRIETTA,--I have received some of the rent and send a
cheque for eight pounds. Have the kindness to acknowledge the
receipt of same by return of post. As soon as you arrive in
London, let me know, and I will send a cheque for ten pounds,
which I believe will pay your interest up to Midsummer. If
there is anything incorrect pray inform me. God bless you. Kind
regards to Miss Harvey.

GEORGE BORROW.

To Mrs. MacOubrey

DEAR HENRIETTA,--As soon as Smith has paid his Michaelmas rent
I will settle your interest up to Midsummer. Twenty-one pounds
was, I think, then due to you, as you received five pounds on
the account of the present year. If, however, you are in want
of money let me know forthwith, and I will send you a small
cheque. The document which I mentioned has been witnessed by
Mrs. Church and her daughter. It is in one of the little tin
boxes on the lower shelf of the closet nearest to the window in
my bedroom. I was over at Mattishall some weeks ago. Things
there look very unsatisfactory. H. and his mother now owe me
L20 or more. The other man a year's rent for a cottage and
garden, and two years' rent for the gardens of two cottages
unoccupied. I am just returned from Norwich where I have been
to speak to F. I have been again pestered by Pilgrim's
successor about the insurance of the property. He pretends to
have insured again. A more impudent thing was probably never
heard of. He is no agent of mine, and I will have no
communication with him. I have insured myself in the Union
Office, and have lately received my second policy. I have now
paid upwards of twelve pounds for policies. F. says that he
told him months ago that the demand he made would not be
allowed, that I insured myself and was my own agent, and that
as he shall see him in a few days he will tell him so again. Oh
what a source of trouble that wretched fellow Pilgrim has been
both to you and me.

I wish very much to come up to London. But I cannot leave the
country under present circumstances. There is not a person in
these parts in whom I can place