My dear Stokes

Many thanks for your letters, I enclosed the proper one to Sir G. Grey & this will show him, that we did not intentionally mean to insult him.— It has been a vexatious affair; for what I remember of him, I like much.— I have very little doubt that your explanation is the true one, viz that my note went in your proof-sheet to the Printers.—

I return you the S. Australian letter with thanks; I was glad to see it.—

I congratulate you heartily on the great success of your Book;² if I were in your place, I should be prouder of having been introduced to the old Duke³ (as I heard was the case) than for a hundred pistols from Joinville,⁴ —extraordinary as that compliment is.

Farewell my dear Stokes