He writes primarily in order to extract a response from Humphry; he has been building a gravel walk behind his house; he is glad
Lord F. Campbell has given Humphry permission to study his drawings collection.
He discusses the latest infatuation of the
Duke [of Dorset], for "Miss Cumb.", and hopes that Lord George has cured him of it; he raises the recent acquittal of
Keppel and thinks the celebrations have gone too far.