Letter from Henry Elliott to Eleanor Anne Porden, sending his congratulations to her on her intended marriage with John Franklin, of whom he has a favourable impression Harried and worried as he is that day, he scarcely knows how to reply to her note: but he assures that nothing can prevent him from his sending his congratulations to her; she knows him too well not to be told how much good he wishes her and how agreeable it was to receive the new confidentially from her; all he has seen of Captain Franklin has made a favourable impression on him, as well as (only regarding looks) his sister; he has no doubt Franklin wrote the book himself, and the heart and dispositon which it shows could not be possessed by a man "with whom one ought to fear entering on the the most intimate connection"; he hopes to become his friend for her sake, and he is disposed to like him for his book, and will be disappointed if he is not likeable for his own sake. He asks whether he did promise [to write an epithalamium], but if he did and he did think once the Gods had made him poetical, he has since found out his mistake. He cannot make his own confidential communication, as there are too many complexities, but, when he thought all was at an end, he was received a testimony of being "beloved"; does she remember an Attic evening when he was "en crise"; how it will end he cannot tell her, with family circumstances also in the way, but if he should ever marry his fate is fixed. His tour is" knocked on the head" by an accident which almost destroyed his assistant there, in whose absence he cannot go away; Edward goes without him, directly to Paris, and will take her review to Pictet, if she will send it by bearer to to their house tomorrow; he starts for Calais Thursday. 22 Jul 1823