We returned from Ripley to Richmond on Saturday afternoon having discovered there no gold mine, but were kindly entertained by Mr Thomas a good natured kinsman in lodgings there. We were at no expense for eating at the inn, save our breakfasts. Those and our Coach hire, there & back, cost us exactly Two pounds. I saw people who remembered the Hone family at Holmwood farm & told us much about them. A cottager eighty eight years old drove my grandfathers second team, till he came to be head man & drove the first team till my grandfathers ruin & the dispersion of the family. I saw the Rev. Mr. [Onslow?] who holds the living, & will recollect them all. I could learn nothing of the [Lansdown?] Hill estate at Bisley, nor of the Hone owner, but heard, a few minutes before I left, of an old handsome tomb to the memory of a Hone in a churchyard a few miles from Ripley. I had no time nor money for further inquiries. More when we return on Wednesday evening. On Thursday we hope to see you at Bolt Court
[Addressed:}
Charles West Esq. M. D.
40 Craven Street
Strand