I will be at Tavistock House at twelve on Saturday, and then will wait for you until I see you. If we return together--as I hope we shall--our express will start at half-past four, and we ought to dine (somewhere about Temple Bar) at three. The infamous ---- says the stoves shall be fixed to-morrow. O! if this were to last long; the distraction of the new book, the whirling of the story through one's mind, escorted by workmen, the imbecility, the wild necessity of beginning to write, the not being able to do so, the, O! I should go---- O! Ever affectionately. P.S.--None. I have torn it off. [Sidenote: Miss Mary Boyle.] BROADSTAIRS, KENT, _October 10th, 1851._ ON THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER. MY DEAR MISS BOYLE, Your remembrance at such a time--not thrown away upon me, trust me--is a sufficient assurance that you know how truly I feel towards you, and with what an earnest sympathy I must think of you now. God be with you! There is indeed nothing terrible in such a death, nothing that we would undo, nothing that we may remember otherwise than with deeply thankful, though with softened hearts. Kate sends you her affectionate love. I enclose a note from Georgina. Pray give my kindest remembrances to your brother Cavendish, and believe me now and ever, Faithfully your Friend. [Sidenote: Mr. Eeles.] "HOUSEHOLD WORDS" OFFICE, _Wednesday Evening, Oct. 22nd, 1851._ DEAR MR. EELES, I send you the list I have made for the book-backs. I should like the "History of a Short Chancery Suit" to come at the bottom of one recess, and the "Catalogue of Statues of the Duke of Wellington" at the bottom of the other. If you should want more titles, and will let me know how many, I will send them to you. Faithfully yours. LIST OF IMITATION BOOK-BACKS. _Tavistock House_, 1851.