Charing X Hotel October 6 1870 My dear Fox There is very little use writing, as I leave this on ar about the 26th to join the Steamer at Suez on the 13th Novr. and shall be with you about the 5th Jany. Bell proposes to start tomorrow night. I have given up the San Francisco route with very great reluctance but there seemed such an uncertainty about the service being continued, that I did not like to run the risk of being stuck up at Honolulu especially as I have already taxed the friendly feeling of the Council rather severely. I scarcely yet know how I shall reach Alexandria, The road from France to Marseilles is closed, I fancy I shall have to find my way