‘I thank you lovingly, dearest Leila, for your letter. I prize your affection,--you write to me almost as my own darling used to write. If my health had broken down, so that I could not have been a comfort to dear Grandmamma and Aunt Fanny here, I should thankfully have accepted the invitation which you so affectionately press; but as I keep pretty well, I do not think that it would be well for me to leave my post at home. Dear Grandmamma seems to cling to me so,--she is so loving! I am thankful that she keeps so well. Dear Aunt Fanny was not so well for two days, but is better again....