Fanny and arrived yesterday at twelve o’clock—twenty-four hours sooner than we expected them—but the steamer had met them farther on than we expected. Fanny is looking uncommonly well, in prodigious spirits, and quite brushed up by her expedition, and has not suffered half so much as I should have expected from the heat of the last week. looks thin. Fanny has done a great many sketches, and they have picked up a great many new stories to talk about, and altogether it has been a happy device. brought me as lovely a money-box from Moorshedabad as I ever saw.
We came down to Calcutta Sunday night.
Yesterday evening we had a very full ball—one of the best we have had—but there is no other house open in the hot season, so they are glad to meet here.
I went out in the carriage with George on Monday evening, but even the evenings now are too hot to be the least refreshing, and it is better
