[Travelling plans.] ... When we betake ourselves to the East I will do all the geography if you will do the cooking - in which matter I am soon pleased - and I have made a route already. We meet at Constantinople, and after there is one necklace of wonders till we come back finally to Damascus the abode of peace. Only one point puzzles me - somewhere in some Lycian valley is a mountain carved into a figure of Niobe, and a living stream pours from her eyes and furrows her cheek, and has done for more that two thousand years - and I can't find out where it is exactly, and foresee difficulties after that we mount up through Phrygian highlands till we come to the watershed of the Euphrates, and there we encamp for months, and we go on to Van and Tiflis - oh, if you know what that means for miracles of building - and after that every day a new miracle - and Damascus is our last stay. we shall have seen no newspapers the Lord be praised for his bounteous mercies - for five years about - at Damascus at the English Consulate we shall one another for the first time, and have ur reflections. Will this be a nice plan? ...