ndividually the whole
Fromefield concern. My brother, who is _slow_ in making
friends, and shy of strangers, softened into tender
friendship under the influence of such kindness, and vows
that if he had such friends he would travel annually from
Edinburgh to see them. He has put one sprig of verbena from
Stuart in one pocket, another sprig from Jane in another
pocket, and a piece of painted glass from Elizabeth in
another pocket. How lucky it is that his dress should be so
abundantly supplied with the accommodation of so many
receptacles for reminiscences! Our next grief after leaving
you was the not seeing Cousin John! We were sadly
disappointed. We did not get into Clifton till near ten; the
rain would prevent his coming to meet us, and the next
morning we very provokingly missed each other, though Mr.
Ramsay consoled himself with writing a note. How much I hope
and trust that we are all to meet next year! We were
delighted with our drive from Chepstow to Ross--the Wye
scenery is exquisitely beautiful; we exhausted ourselves and
our epithets in exclamations, and the day seemed made for the
magnificent view from the Wynd Cliff, and then we came to
Tintern Abbey! How often we wished for our Chedder party--how
often we talked over the pleasure we would have in admiring
all this beauty with them, and how often, like spoiled
children, we wondered why all this enjoyment should not have
accompanied us to Monmouth! but good-night, my very dear
friends--I shall leave the letter in better hands for
finishing, I am so sleepy!!

[Mr. Ramsay]--We have seen many things of which the ingenious
and very learned Dr. Woodward would say that they were "great
ornaments to our ponds and ditches." But of this enough, and
more than enough. Allow me to take this opportunity of
expressing my satisfaction at finding how completely Mrs.
E.B.R enters into the friendship which has so long existed
between _us_, and at seeing how fully prepared she is to
appreciate your kindness to myself and her; in short, to find
that she loves you all now, as if she had known you as long
as I have. May we never lose sight of these feelings! We saw
Oxford to-day--a good thing, but in detail not equal to
Cambridge--in general effect far superior. Gloster pleased
me