had it hav’nt you?

Are not you glad that wretched claimant is to be tried for perjury? That was an amusing acc^t. of his meeting with his friends in the D. News.²

Mamma & I are going to Down Ampney next week.³

What heavenly spring weather we have been having, weather in which it is perfect bliss to sit & bask in the sun with closed eyes

Was your horticultural fête pretty?

Y^rs. dear Bessy | Lucy Wedgwood

Will you tell Uncle Charles I did find some parallel ridges on the chalk downs, some near the bottom of some chalk rubbish thrown out of a pit & grassed over, some at the top of a steep field, which may have been wholly made by sheep.⁴ They did not run into each other much, & there were not many worm casts in either place. I enclose the rough sketch I made on the spot, but it does not shew much. I want to go again & xplore further some day.

I see my scrawls are so slight as hardly to be worth sending