cheerful than and the prospect from the drawing room window at which i now write is rather picturesque as it commands a view of the left side of street broken by three in the garden of the last house in queen s parade i am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown but i suppose it will be some days before can get through the trunk in the mean time i am with many thanks for your trouble in making it as well as marking my silk stockings yours very affectionately jane a great deal of love from everybody miss letters of jane xv queen my dear � i am obliged to you for two letters one from yourself and the other from mary for of the latter i knew nothing till on the receipt of yours yesterday when the was examined and i received my due as i have written to her since the time which ought to have brought me hers i suppose she will consider herself as i choose to consider her still in my debt i will lay out all the little judgment i have in to get such stockings for as she will approve but i do not know that i shall execute s commission at all for i am not fond of ordering shoes and at any rate they shall all have flat heels what must i tell you of edward truth or falsehood i will try the former and you may choose for yourself another time he was better yesterday than he had been for two or three days before � about as well as while he was at he drinks at the pump is to tomorrow and try on tuesday he proposed the latter himself to dr who made no objection to it but i fancy we are all unanimous in expecting no advantage from it at letters of jane present i have no great notion of our staying here beyond the month i heard from charles last week they were to sail on wednesday my mother seems remarkably well my uncle himself at first and can now only travel in a chair but is otherwise very well my cloak is come home i like it very much and can now exclaim with delight like j bond at hay harvest this is what i have been looking for these three years i saw some in a shop in bath street yesterday at only d a yard but they were not so good or so pretty as mine are very much worn and fruit is still more the thing elizabeth has a bunch of and i seen grapes and there are likewise and french and at the but i have never seen any of them in hats a or would cost three shillings and grapes about five i believe but this is at some of the dearest shops my aunt has told me of a very cheap one near church to which i shall go in quest of something for you i have never seen an old woman at the pump room elizabeth has given me a hat and it is not only a pretty hat but a pretty style of hat too it is something like s only instead of being all g letters of jane straw half of it is narrow purple ribbon i flatter myself however that you understand very little of it from this description heaven forbid that i should ever offer such encouragement to explanations as to give a clear one on any occasion myself but i must write no more of this i spent friday evening with the and was obliged to submit to being pleased in spite of my inclination we took a very charming walk from six to eight up hill and across some fields to the village of which is sweetly situated in a little green valley as a village with such a name ought to be is sensible and intelligent and even jane considering how fair she is is not unpleasant we had a miss north and a mr of our party the latter walked home with me after tea he is a very young man just entered oxford wears spectacles and has heard that was written by dr johnson i am afraid i cannot undertake to carry s shoes home for though we had plenty of room in our trunks when we came we shall have many more things to take back and i must allow besides for my packing there is to be a grand on tuesday evening in gardens a concert with and to the latter elizabeth and i look forward with pleasure and even the concert letters of jane will have more than its usual charm for me as the gardens are large enough for me to get pretty well beyond the reach of its sound in the morning lady is to present the colors to some corps or or other in the and that such may have a proper commencement we think of going to i am quite pleased with and mrs for wanting the pattern of our caps but i am not so well pleased with your giving it to them some wish some prevailing wish is necessary to the animation of everybody s mind and in gratifying this you leave them to form some other which will not probably be half so innocent i shall not forget to write to frank duty and love etc yours affectionately jane my uncle is quite surprised at my hearing from you so often but as long as we can keep the of our correspondence from s uncle we will not fear our own miss xvi queen square tuesday june ii my dear � your letter yesterday made me very happy i am heartily glad that you have escaped any share in the of letters of jane and not sorry as it turns out that our stay 