Hawl second is twenty-four pieces of the most splendid Chinese paper, twelve feet high by four wide, a present from my cousin Hugh Scott, enough to finish the drawing-room and two bedrooms.  Hawl third is a quantity of what is called Jamaica cedar-wood, enough for fitting up both the drawing-room and the library, including the presses, shelves, &c.:  the wood is finely pencilled and most beautiful, something like the colour of gingerbread; it costs very little more than oak, works much easier, and is never touched by vermin of any kind.  I sent Mr. Atkinson a specimen, but it was from the plain end of the plank; the interior is finely waved and variegated.  Your kind and unremitting exertions in our favour will soon plenish the drawing-room.  Thus we at present stand.  We have a fine old English cabinet, with china, &c.-and two superb elbow-chairs, the gift of Constable, carved most magnificently, with groups of children, fruit, and flowers, in the Italian taste:  they came from Rome, and are much admired.  It seems to me that the mirror you mention, being framed in carved box, would answer admirably well with the chairs, which are of the same material.  The mirror should, I presume, be placed over the drawing-room chimney-piece; and opposite to it I mean to put an antique table of mosaic marbles, to support Chantrey’s bust.  A good sofa would be desirable, and so would the tapestry screen, if really fresh and beautiful; but as much of our furniture will be a little antiquated, one would not run too much into that taste in so small an apartment.  For the library I have the old oak chairs now in the little armoury, eight in number, and we might add one or two pair of the ebony chairs you mention.  I should think this enough, for many seats in such a room must impede access to the books; and I don’t mean the library to be on ordinary occasions a public room.  Perhaps the tapestry-screen would suit better here than in the drawing-room.  I have one library table here, and shall have another made for atlases and prints.  For the hall I have four chairs of black oak.  In other matters we can make it out well enough.  In fact, it is my object rather to keep under my new accommodations at first, both to avoid immediate outlay, and that I may leave room for pretty things which may occur hereafter.  I would to Heaven I could take a cruise with you through the brokers, which would be the pleasantest affair possible, only I am afraid I should make a losing voyage of it.  Mr. Atkinson has missed a little my idea of the oratory, fitting it up entirely as a bookcase, whereas I should like to have had recesses for curiosities—­for the Bruce’s skull—­for a crucifix, &c., &c.-in short, a little cabinet instead of a book-closet.  Four sides of books would be perfectly sufficient; the other four, so far as not occupied by door or window, should be arranged tastefully for antiquities, &c., like the inside of an antique cabinet, with drawers, and shottles, and funny little