Marked--"First visit to F.F. with wife, June 9,1831."

Mr. RAMSAY to Miss STUART SHEPPARD, Fromefield.

Woburn, Friday night, 1st July [1831].

We are sure that our very dear friends at Fromefield will be
interested in hearing of our progress and welfare, and as we
have a few extra minutes this morning, we are determined to
devote them to a party now living in the hearts of _all_ the
wanderers with whom they so lately and so grievously parted:
the _weather_ even _sympathised_ on Tuesday evening, and all
the comfort we had was in talking over individually the whole
Fromefield concern. My brother, who is _slow_ in making
friends, and shy of strangers, softened into tender
friendship under the influence of such kindness, and vows
that if he had such friends he would travel annually from
Edinburgh to see them. He has put one sprig of verbena from
Stuart in one pocket, another sprig from Jane in another
pocket, and a piece of painted glass from Elizabeth in
another pocket. How lucky it is that his dress should be so
abundantly supplied with the accommodation of so many
receptacles for reminiscences! Our next grief after leaving
you was the not seeing Cousin John! We were sadly
disappointed. We did not get into Clifton till near ten; the
rain would prevent his coming to meet us, and the next
morning we very provokingly missed each other, though Mr.
Ramsay consoled himself with writing a note. How much I hope
and trust that we are all to meet next year! We were
delighted with our drive from Chepstow to Ross--the Wye