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Fryston. - Requests French edition of Comte de Montalembert's trial and any related publications. [Written in third person]

Seeks Paris address of Alexander Baillie-Cochrane; Milnes' 'radical aberrations' in continental politics; even more shocked by his becoming 'the editor and panegyrist of an atheistical rhymer like Keats! Little did I think when I met you at Rome seventeen years ago, that your Catholic and romantic tendencies would lead you to such a conclusion'; Milnes is too old for radicalism.

84: contains note by Alexis François Rio, [1840?].

Houghton. - Charlotte reports Charley improved. Beau Brummell's note interested the family, but few remembered him; Milnes' description of a dandy as an 'unprincipled exquisite' confirms her feelings that Brummell's career does not merit a biography. Mr Thackeray's lectures on the 'Four Georges' bring royalty into disrepute for private gain; the Kings were not faultless but the nation advanced considerably under their rule and a patriot should recognise the fact; quotes Montalembert on respect for the throne; to lose such respect would be disastrous for the country,