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Meiningen.

April 20th: 1825.

Dear Sir,

Tho' I ostensibly take up my pen to request you will state to Mrs Cotton with my best compliments that during my remaining abroad I really cannot find time to write to Lord Combermere respecting his relation in India yet I will on my return home. She does not know the anxious interruptions and the immense number of letters I must have to answer which totally prevents my attending to the concerns of others: I have another much stronger reason for taking up my pen which is to state tho' yesterday brought me letters of 8th instant and another post came in this morning from Frankfurt still the Mails of 1st and 5th instant