‘_Sept. 20._--As regards my little Indian tales, I have sent a good many to Nelson, who has accepted them; and consequently I suppose intends to publish them. It is very likely that they have been appearing in the _Family Treasury_.... Sadiq had just come from Batala, where he had seen B--n. Dear Sadiq! I think that he must have gone altogether seven or eight times to Batala. He is a friend worth having. B--n expressed his willingness to bring his little girls to Amritsar; but his baby was so very, very ill, that he feared she could not be moved.... The little lamb appeared to be sinking fast. My surprise is how she has been kept alive so long. The last account was that the baby was “not fit to be picked off the charpai”;[47] she seemed dying. Dear little martyred innocent,--dying because her father gave himself to Christ! B--n intends to bring his two elder children; but of course nothing can be done while baby is dying....