Mr Lyon and Roy is here starving, but I don't think they make much of their London madrigal and Glee Club. The theatre and all connections with it is far from respectable. I thought that all you can do here is to dream of those places here. Many persons who work on the roads get sun stroke, and die. The gentlemen wear veils as well as the ladies here, to keep off dust and flies.
Dogs are very numerous.
You have to carry a stick to knock them off to prevent them biting you. Every one is on an equality here and the only thing that I am not obliged to keep up any great appearances here. I can wear what I like and no one looks at you. I shall become a rough and uncouth being - and not the civilised Henry Severn that was. I have not been able to get all my clothes out of the box but shall go next week.