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them of the power of walking even in doors, while not
incapacitating them otherwise for enjoying life.
We have already many visits to return - though we have
striven to avoid them until we get our house in order.
George Norman is very nervous & looks thin & un-
comfortable; but I hope he is not seriously out
of health. The wet season has been bad for Bromley,
which as you know is a cold clay soil. All our
other friends well – though Davidson as usual
has gone South (to Nice) for the cold season

Sir W. Denison will have left N. S. W. for Madras –
probably by the mail of this month, but at all
events before you receive this. His brother Alfred left
London this day week for Egypt & the frontiers of
Nubia. Mr. Talbot who was with us at Camden years
ago with his brother Captain T: (R. N.) is his companion.
Alfred D. is friendly & cordial in his ways with us.
He is evidently "ennuyé" of an idler's life:
Sir John Young is named as the most likely
person for the Government of N. S. W. - He is the
son of a friend or if I mistake not near con-
nexion of the Scotts - Mrs Mitchell will know
& has been a Commissioner at the Ionian
Islands – where he did well. His reputation is
very good in all respects. But there is, I repeat,