George Shee: "If a computation were to be formed of our correspondence during the last twelve months, what a ponderous volume it would make! The excellent plan to which we have so steadily adhered of writing to each other without reference to the state of our epistolary account has effectually guarded us from those long intervals of silence to which other correspondences are subject - so that ours exhibits a picture of most pleasing uniformity! Why, you laziest and most punctillious of all possible Derbyshire baronets, does not the above imaginary description cover you with confusion? 18 December 1826