Dear C.

Of course you will be delighted to pay the postage of another note, being a second edition of my stupidity.

I have given up my intention of going by sea, & I was meditating to send you such an account of my not being sick but for want of something just at present to tell you I am obliged to tell you the truth, which is this.

I went to the office to get my place when I learnt that the vessel would not sail till Saturday & not then for certain because of the uncertainty of the weather: the man assured me it would not signify for if the vessel set off on Saturday we should be in Liverpool by Monday morning, which is rather too much of a good thing. I have sent my box to go by sea & it does not require to be directed to any person in Liverpool: If you also should alter your mind I dare say you can send it from Edinburgh directed in the following kind of fashion.

C. D. Laird & Co 25 York St. Glasgow By the Henry Bell Steam Boat

Liverpool To be sent on to

Shrewsbury

I went this morning & dawdled an hour or so over the Hunterian Museum¹ which is well worth going to being only a 1/. & nobody to bother you by lionising. There are most splending foreign birds Birds of Paradise Humming Birds which quite dazzle the eyes. English Birds Lions &c, 4 ornithrync⁠⟨⁠hi⁠⟩⁠ numbers of snakes, min⁠⟨⁠erals⁠⟩⁠ shells, anatomical prep⁠⟨⁠  ⁠⟩⁠ pictures, &c. &c. &c. &c.

The Students here actually play at foot ball within the precincts of the college: you never did see such a set set since you was born & please God never again.

I intend travelling the same route as we came bye indeed there is little choice without a considerable circuit.

Good Bye once again.²