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Answers a query from JB of a year before (actually three - see 13 for more details) - Mr, now Sir, Charles Trevelyan (assistant secretary to Her Majesty's Treasury, appointed KCB in 1848) is the son of their old friend George Trevelyan.

This might be his last letter - suffering appallingly from lumbago.

Lumbago slightly better - he can rise for a little from his bed. During sleepless nights has been recalling passages of Virgil and Horace, some of them rather gloomy.

Lumbago better yet - he can rise from his bed. Dean Buckland has lost his reason, the third such they know; Dean Turton did so before him, the father-in-law of their old schoolfellow Yates (Joseph Yates - Thomas Turton was in fact his step-father), and Dean Vincent as well. The Tothill Fields they knew is gone , along with the dirty lake in the centre - instead magnificent squares and elegant villas are springing up (presumably the developments of Thomas Cubitt). Does the railroad benefit or injure the comforts of JB's neighbourhood?

JB coming to stay on way to and from Woolwich (see 64), bidding his son farewell before he departs for Newfoundland (see 68).

Requires 2 or 3 days notice of JB's projected visit (see 75) - his secretary William Jenkins will meet JB, and escort him through the crowd of cabs and pickpockets to the house.

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