lost his arm; so I brought him down and boarded him out for the chance of this election. His father came down from Agra to see him, and died of cholera the night he arrived; he has no mother, so there could not be a greater object.
My dearest Sister,— and Lord Jocelyn, after sundry delays from gales and want of steamers, sailed in the ‘Conway’ this morning. There is still such a high south wind that I have no idea they will get beyond Kedgeree for two or three days.
You cannot think how well we are getting through the hot season; it is quite different. from any we have seen before, though they say it was the same last year; but there is a storm every other day, and about four o’clock it is quite cool, and the evening drive, instead of a trouble, is an absolute pleasure. I suppose this cannot last, but we have arrived at the 5th of May without any suffering to speak of since the
