File 1/28. - Frances Bunsen and Charles Bunsen,

Reassures Mrs Waddington about Mr Manley's measles and Emily's, Charles Bunsen's and own health; has been making new night clothes, reading Gil Blas to Mr Manley, playing piano, particularly waltzes brought previous winter by Don Emanuel Ruspoli and played by Miss Berkeley with Mr Manley's flute accompaniment; has been copying extracts from Mrs Carter into book for Emily; received visit from three Germans, one playing exquisitely, one screaming rather than singing, the other admiring view from windows; Mr R. Napier is now incapable of rationality; in Frances Bunsen's opinion, Mme Herz is not clever or sensible despite her command of five modern languages and Latin and Greek; mentions Mlle Klein, Abbé Gossier and Lady Harriet Jones; refers to Louis, mentioned in Mrs Waddington's letter, and to a curious story about King and Lady Sarah Lennox; confirms arrangement in previous letter about receiving books; has engaged woman to nurse her during confinement; thanks Mrs Waddington for sending Mr Niebuhr Reports of the Society for Bettering the Conditions of the Poor, for rug and for kind way Charles Bunsen's two letters of Dec. 6 and 18 were received. [Charles Bunsen] is grateful for confidence expressed in him.