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with me but he may also be graciously pleased to invite me in to tea with him as M.^r Darwin kindly did this afternoon, which afforded me particular satisfaction, when I was in a humour to moralize on the many hours passed in the old house & garden twenty summers gone & away

The garden as I believe I mentioned is greatly improved since our last visit to our then newly married Friends. M.^r D has also a charming seat to which I fly when the Western sun makes home insupportable, which I found it from time to time last year till near Michalmas - yet I resist Lady Newbrugh’s immediate invitation not finding it convenient to be absent from Derby more than four months, & not caring to return thither again till the Sun has nearly forsaken my windows

After so much private history you will not want wish me to embark upon politics. I must however thank you in the name