‘I am about a very tedious work, reading through the Koran in English. I think that it may be very desirable for me to be able to say--“I have read your Koran right through.” But, oh, how sleepy one gets over the book! It is so full of repetitions; the same ideas and stories over and over again. I am perfectly well, and the weather is now charming,--such a comfort to get rid of the cold!--but I believe that I twice this forenoon went to sleep, simply from reading the Koran. I read and read, then leant back in my comfortable chair, and took a nap!