_When I come home I mean to rat-&-be married: i.e, if I can hook in any one to be such a fool. The great difference between A wife & a friend is that a wife cannot cut one, & a friend can. It is a bad thing περισσὰ φρονεῖν so I shall certainly rat. I see that little goose H. W. has gone the way of all flesh. Old Ryder’s apostacy I knew of before. Isaac cannot hold out long if he is not fall’n already. So why should you & I be wiser than our neighbours?_ _Some months ago before I had repented of my radicalism &c, I was devising a scheme for you which was knocked on the head by my finding from the Brit Mag. that you were ordained by the Bp. of Oxford. For my part, I’d rather have had my Orders from a Scotch Bishop, & I thought of suggesting the same to you. The stream is purer; & besides it w’d have left one free from some embarrassing engagements. By the by, all I know about any of you is through the Brit. Mag. Here it was I learnt about Ryder & Henry, & N’s sermons, & your ordination & whatever else I have happened to pick up about any one――I am very thirsty for more authentic information――Not that I w’d have you write to me after the receipt of this letter tho, for by that time I should most likely be on my way back. I shall start as early as I can in April: & I really begin now to think that I shall come back cured: At least people tell me that since the weather has become cooler I have altered for the better in appearance rapidly, & certainly I have in strength. I have now left off animal food for many months_]