May 23, 1845
To report progress – I shall be quite ready, as far as my work is concerned, to come up on Monday. But I have called a Council (my wife taking the chair) and we have come to a unanimous decision – "when we do agree, our unanimity is wonderful" – that it will be better to give myself another one more day, so that on Tuesday, with an M.S as large as myself, I shall come loaded to Sackville St.
Excuse all the scribbling I inflict upon you and believe me ever & ever
yrs
T. M.