One of my objects in London is to chuse the Paper – because once done you can go up en famille ^<1> at any time – but Constance ^<2> thinks that if you settle in town soon it will prevent your bathing at Brighton, which she is quite convinced you ought to try, & probably it would do you as much good as it did in former times. In short she has persuaded me to wait here for your Answer, as you sometimes change your Mind. But then perhaps some time hence you would have a fancy to establish your selves in Sackville Street ^<3> & it would be impossible for want of the Paper – ainsi pesez bien ^<4> all this, but don’t contrive to waste the lovely month of June in the Metropolis, as you did last year – by which you not only lose the roses & pleasures of a too short English summer but gain all the heat & dust of a London atmosphere, besides arriving just as every body is wild with dissipation, for certainly June is the mad season Don’t fail to answer when you have duly reflected

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Notes:

1. Together as a family.

2. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.

3. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT.

4. So weigh, ponder well.