File 3102. - Ja[me]s [Drummond] from London, to his father, Sir Fran[ci]s Drummond, BART., at Avenue de Neuilly, Champs Elysée, Paris,

Town is so dull and so cold. His introduction at Lady Antobu's to Miss T., daughter of Lieut-Gen. Sir C. Fuller, and her mother. He is anxious to get settled. The arrival of the box of books. His talk with Bonham about the Kilmarnock [election]. His debts to Allan and Wilkinson. Meetings with Brougham and Balour. Sensation caused by Evans's defeat, - no one knows what the Government will do. Comments on Richardson and 'Botch'. The writer's leave, and proposed visit to Berlin to see 90,000 men reviewed. Melville's payment of the writer's debts. Hope that the family may soon be reunited round the social hearth in bonny Hawthornden. He advises his father against going to Switzerland, if only because it will be impossible to remain stationary at Interlacken or any other place, and consequently because of the charges. 'The Rhine ... is your mark.' Greetings to his mother, the lassies and Dick, - 'the Hales & Co. look upon him as one who will be fit for nothing but a drawing room'.