Go on and prosper.
I do not much think Miss Fuller would do any great good with the
Pepolis,--even if they are still in Rome, and not at Bologna as
our advices here seemed to indicate. Madam Pepoli is an elderly
Scotch lady, of excellent commonplace vernacular qualities,
hardly of more; the Count, some years younger, and a much airier
man, is on all sides a beautiful _Dilettante,_--little suitable,
I fear, to the serious mind that can recognize him as such!
However, if the people are still in Rome, Miss Fuller can easily
try: Bid Miss Fuller present my Wife's compliments, or mine, or
even _yours_ (for they know all our domesticities here, and are
very intimate, especially Madam with _My_ dame); upon which the
acquaintance is at once made, and can be continued if useful.
This morning Richard Milnes writes to me for your address; which
I have sent. He is just returned out of Spain; home swiftly to
"vote for the Jew Bill"; is doing hospitalities at Woburn Abbey;
and I suppose will be in Yorkshire (home, near Pontefract) before
long.
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