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You must [illeg.]run
down next voyage & see
us, if you can. Telegraph
me what hour you will
arrive & I'll go to the station
& fetch you home. Mr.
Wood stayed all night with

us & then joined the Gen-
eral in New York & they
went West together. I
wanted the General to
stop with us, too, but his
business made it im-
possible.

The American papers
say the Royal Humane So-
ciety ought to give me a
medal for "standing around
on deck without any um-
brella," &c. I exsuspect they
mean a leather
one.

My wife is anxious
that you should be put in

command of the biggest Cu-
narder afloat, & then she
thinks the sea-sickness will
deal less harshly by her. I
hope, also, that that you'll have a particularly
big ship next mMay, for I am
afraid my wife is going to have
a hard time with sea-sickness.