26th January 1825

Fetchd some soil from Cowper green for my ferns & flowers — the sharpest frost for this winter which woud not bare a boy to slide on — from what cause sprung the superstition of making the No. 3 a fatal No. ? — it is so much so — that ghosts use it & never pay a visit without giving their (fashionable) signal of 3 raps to announce their arrival