Keeping the Belly and Back from Grumbling, and the Kitchen-Fire from Going Out

Dear Sir, – This is the coldest day we have yet had, and, as I have no disposition to stir abroad, I shall devote part of it to you; though, as you tell me sometimes, I am not a letter in debt, excepting indeed the short script in which you told me you had found the Commentaries of De la Vega. ¹