Letter from David Leslie Buckingham Durand, Viscount Howard
Merton College, Oxford
To Lydia Barrow, Wansdyke
Somerset
Lydia,
I have found him, and he knows to expect you.
Are you sure you want to do this? Do you need funds? I have not said a word to anyone, not even Marianne. If something should go wrong and you need help, you are to dispatch a letter to me through the Golden Goose. Everyone in Stroud knows it. Tell them to get it to me at Merton posthaste. I’ll try to get to you as quickly as I can if I hear that you need me.
Lord, you’re lucky one of my mates is the Earl of Gloucester. Otherwise I could not have put all of this together for you.
I still think you’re mad, and I wish you weren’t going through with it. There is really no need, and you know what is said about sleepin
