[am] extremely fond of but my favourite study is English literature, composition and the study of languages which above all things I should like to master. I think it looks so elegant to meet a lady who can talk sensibly and in other languages. I sometime look forward of perhaps having that unspeakable pleasure of accompanying you on a visit to the Continent where I hope you intend visiting when you come home. I hope by that time it will be in a more tranquil state than at present. Many are the conjectures of what the state of this war will be but this we know that we live in eventful times