Many thanks for your very kind letter of the 24th which I received on my return from the music meeting. I am very glad to find that our tour has answered to you as well as it has to me, and I am almost tempted to pay you the same compliment I did to Cholmely to whom I observed on our return from the Highlands, how glad I was that he went, as had he not been able to have gone, I could not have got any other companion. But however a real travelling companion is by no means easily found, and many are the pieces of live lumber who will fill one side of a chaise or curricle without the least pretensions to that appellation.