MacDermott says he does not think I can get the loan from Hibernian Bank concluded within a fortnight, but will hasten matters as much as possible. The bank and their solicitors approve the security and proposal generally, but it will take a little time to make the searches and go through other formalities which lawyers always insist upon in such cases. By to-morrow I expect to have done as much as I possibly can for the present in the matter of the new paper. It has been a very troublesome business, as a dispute has arisen between different sections of my own friends as to who shall {323} have the largest share in the management of the new organ. This dispute somewhat impedes progress and increases the difficulties. However, the matter is not so pressing, as the _Freeman_ question is again postponed for another fortnight. I expect to make a satisfactory arrangement about my _Freeman_ shares, under which I shall lose nothing by them. Kerr is making progress in getting up a small company to buy a steamer, and I think he may succeed. I have been very much bored, as I am obliged to remain in the hotel all day every day, waiting to see people who may call about the different undertakings. I wonder whether you have been driving at all, and how the eyes are, and how you have been doing. You have not written to tell me.--With much love, MY OWN LITTLE WIFIE'S HUSBAND. MORRISON'S HOTEL, DUBLIN, _Monday, September_ 7, 1801 MY OWN WIFIE,--I have told Kerr that he cannot have any of the first thousand, so he is going to manage without it for the present, so you may reckon on that amount The bank was to have given me that sum to-day, but a hitch occurred on Saturday which I removed to-day, and the board will meet to-morrow and ratify the advance. YOUR OWN HUSBAND. In great haste. The trouble about the jealousies of would-be directors on the new board still continues, and have postponed selection till next week--crossing to-morrow night. On my husband's return home from Ireland in September, after having established the _Irish Daily Independent_, he was looking so worn out and ill that I was thoroughly alarmed about his health. He was very cheerful and happy while he was at home, and I had much difficulty in keeping him quietly lying down to rest on the sofa. But, though he protested while following my wishes, I saw as I sat watching him while he slept that {324} the tired, grey shadows were growing deeper upon his beautiful face, and that in sleep he had that absolute stillness which one only finds in very healthy children or in the absolutely exhausted sleep of adults. I tried to induce him to see Sir Henry Thompson in town, but he would not consent--saying that he could not waste a moment of his little time at home, and that, though he did feel tired, that was all.