favours
But I must not indulge myself with thus running on, but proceed to
remind You of
your kind promise to set out with an Act of humility and bring
your bride to visit my Cottage and my poor. The Plan I wou’d chalk out for you is to be here on Saturday
either at dinner or tea, the former I shall like best, and then
you may have your quiet evening walk. We can contrive to lodge an
humble footman, tho not a fine Valet de Chambre and then he will
be ready to dress you, and you shall have one of the Parlours for
your Dressing Room. As to the
Lady, I will be handmaid myself to her, “I’ll weave her Garlands
& I’ll pleat her hair On Sunday Morn You shall sally
forth at half past eight
Patty
and I attending you in another Chaise – we go first to
Shipham, then to
Axbridge
– then get to
Cheddar, about Eleven Miles you know there to cut your cold Meat, a good
seasonable penance for your I trow. The Church, School, and
evening devotions will keep us there till about seven; then we
call in on another little Society at
Axbridge
and get home after Nine.
Cheddar
is eight Miles from
Wells; but it will not do for you to sleep at
Wells
on the Saturday and meet us at
Cheddar
on Sunday as you once thought; because in that case you can go but
to one School, as they lie in a contrary direction. But if your
time runs short so that you cannot indulge us by coming back
hither on the Sunday Night you might in that case go from
Cheddar
to
Wells
to sleep if you find you can’t /do/ any thing /more for us./ It is
very generous in me to suggest this as I hope you will not adopt
it, as I shoud greatly wish to have you both here on the Sunday
Night.
Patty
has one great trouble, half
Cheddar
is under inoculation and her troops for about three Sundays will
be very thin. Be so good as give me a line
au plutot
with your plan as we shall probably perform our pilgrimage towards
another point of the Compass next Sunday if we are disappointed of
your Company.
Thank you for noticing my young friend
Leeves. He writes with much gratitude at the kindness he has
received, and the honour of being admitted to the Society of so
much piety and talent.
How did he come off at Clapham in preeching? Much condideration
[sic] is due to him as he never before was in any /truly/
religious Society. Does
Bowdler’s health stand this Winter?
I am going to do a most impudent thing. But if you
will, by your generosity, spoil people you must abide
the consequences. Your Ladyship gave me 4 Volumes of
Clarke’s Travels, which I have had handsomely bound. I hear there is a fifth.
Perhaps you will have the goodness to compleat my set* – Any time will do, for at present I have little
time for reader – and now I will proceed to tell you why
I know not what to say to D. Baillie for
what I must call his elegant kindness. Do you think he
would take it rightly [if] [tear] I sent him
Christian Morals *? – has he
[tear]ren? – they at least might read it –
If you think it right, perhaps you would have the goodness to
order
Hatchard
to get /ready/ a copy of the 4th.
Edition elegantly bound, but not to send it till I write to you
again.
Take care of your health my dearest Lady – Remember that the
constant excitement of your sensibility, and the exertions of
your mind, with people of the right /stamp/ , is more wearing
than the uninteresting insipidity of the frivolous.
A young divine, a great friend of mine the
Revd.. Henry Leeves , being lately brought to a very serious sense of religion has
just entered the Church, and
having preached only 4 Sermons of truly serious piety caught
cold and is supposed to be
consumptive
– The Physicians immediately sent him abroad He is now at
Gibraltar, is going to
Malta,
Sicily
&c – He has letters to
Lord W. Bentinck, should he chance to see him, but
it just occurs to me that you would perhaps have the goodness
to name him to
Lady Wm.. – He is a very elegant young Man modest, well manner'd,
&c –
I have not heard from you of an age. Do give me a line to say when
you go to
Town, that I may know where to send
Saint Paul
to wait on you. The printing will be finished to morrow I hope and
it will probably be out in [deletion] ten days. I have sent your
name to
Cadell
to send Your copy; with that of your neighbour
Bishop
to
Huntingdon,
but if you are moving you woud perhaps like it better to meet you
in
Town. I am also going to order [to]
Hatchard
to send You
the new Edition of the Dramas with the Additional
Scene in Moses .*
Pray speak of this to your friends to prevent their encouraging
the pirated Editions – The genuine is only printed by Cadell and
Davies.
I have just got a long letter from dear
Mary Gisborne
replete with sorrow, affection and the deepest piety.
How stupid, in Bowdler’s prejudiced
bigoted father* to obstruct the
very desirable plans of
Ld. Calthorpe and
Mr. Inglis to write a Memoir of
the dear departed! I have written to
Harriet Bowdler to try to soften her
brother
Bartlett’s-Buildings
heart. *
Poor Mrs. Thornton I hear
looks sadly, has a pain in her chest and drinks Asses Milk. I
tremble for her life.
Her letters rather increase in sadness, but it is a sanctified
sadness. – I forgot to say that Mr.
H. and I agreed that nothing would so much contribute to give
Mr.
S. a habit of application as to give him a slight tincture of
Fractions, and Algebra; not to make him a Mathematician but to tie
down his attention –
I know of no person likely to suit
Lady Gosford’s friend as a Governess. You ask how I like
W. Scott’s new Poem.* I have not seen it, but do not hear it thought
equal to its predecessors.
A friend has sent me
Eustace’s Tour thro Italy .* It is classical & elegant in a high degree –
but has too much Republicanism too little of the Manners of the
people, and I think a disposition to overrate their Virtues – God
be praised for
the peace!* – but what Peace so long as the Witchcrafts of
Bonaparte are so many.
P. is in very poor health.
We all join in kind remembrances to Yr.
Ladyship and
Miss S.
I feel a little ashamed of my own impetuosity and selfishness,
that
in the first burst of sorrow for our lamented friend
H. Thornton * I should /mix/ any regret for my petty
concerns, as they regarded my poor, with the sorrow of heart
which I shared with hundreds.
It has however given occasion to the exercise of your
generous and Christian liberality, and I thank you most
cordially in the name of hundreds for your kind and seasonable
bounty.
I enter heartily into your concern about your Clergyman. It is of
such importance!
I hope I am furnishing
Mr. Dunn
with a young Tutor for his little boy of the highest value. But
it is only in trial, as
my young friend
is not yet in orders I trust it will be a mutual benefit
Many thanks for the trouble you took on [unclear]
Mr.
Cottrall’s Prayer *.
Should he accomplish his Object, perhaps you will allow me to
send your name as a Subscriber.
It would strengthen his hand I dont know him. He is the faithful
Porter of 6000 Souls. His Living £100 Pr Ann:
But Gods Ways are not as our Ways. Poor dear
Mary Gisborne * may He comfort her – no one else can
What an effort my dear friend did you make to write me those
few kind lines.
Mr. Melville – Whom I take to
be a son of Lord Leven’s*,
finished the letter in a way that has made him Stand high in my
opinion. It was written in a fine spirit,
& will you thank him for me
It would give you a sort of sad consolation to see how every
one who writes to me expresses themselves on the Subject of your
beloved
Husband . Sorrow makes even
Lord Gambier
eloquent.
Mr.
Dunn
who has been staying with us is always sublime . From men like these who could judge & feel his Merit one
expected it but I was pleased with an expression of the General
feelings in more ordinary Men living in the turmoil of trade which
is apt to blunt the feelings, but whose Shop is crowded with the
first sort of Men.
I mean my bookseller, Cadell, who writes
thus ‘The death of your distinguished friend has excited a
sensation of grief, more general & distressing than we
remember to have witnessed’
This was said of the feelings of the world at large – my other
letters being from religious men. Said no more than was expected
of them.
I am truly anxious about your health. Grace may enable you to
subdue your mind but I fear Your body will not be so submissive.
Every time you look on your sweet children, this duty will be
pressed homeward to you – in a way you will not be able or willing
to resist. I know not yet whether you have returned to
Clapham. The events of these last three Weeks form the Chief Subject of
our conversation. I think much of you – at a time when I hope you
are not thinking of yourself – in the dead of night – for my
nights are in general bad.
We have paid to our departed friend the tribute of wearing
mourning – it is nothing to the dead, but may testify to the
living who are about us, our reverence for exalted piety &
virtue.
Though our friends have been very kind, they are naturally so full
of their own sorrows that it is some time since I have heard
especially of you.
We have got a new Neighbour
Mr. C. Maude
a Son of
Lady Haywarden ,* who is curate of
Blagdon,
Lady Lifford &c wrote to recommend
him strongly to me.
He is but just three and twenty, very amiable with much naiveté
and good nature, takes advice kindly, and allows me to say any
thing to him, and I try to give my opinions in a fine cheerful way
not to frighten him. He has of course much to learn, being but
just escaped from
Christ Church ;* he is very kind to the poor and already much liked
by them, he seems humble, has no high notions, but talks of his
little self denials and frugal management with much openness.
I let him come when he likes and hope to be in some little
degree useful to him as I know the people. He is about to marry a very young Girl, much will
depend on her turn of Mind.
I have had a very interesting visit from my old friend
/Revd/ Mr. Stewart , Son to
Lord Galloway. You know I believe that this excellent young Man near ten years
ago, quitted not only the luxuries of his Station and the
enjoyments of Society /but the common comforts of life, / and with
his Bishop’s consent left his church preferment to go on a Mission
to
Canada.* There he has been living obscurely but not
uselessly, for the
Protestants
of that place,
Montreal
&c are at length so awakened by his labours that they have
agreed at their own expence to build four Churches and he is come
to
Europe
for the sole purpose of procuring right sort of Ministers, and to
claim the Stipend allowed by Government and the
Society for Propagating the Gospel
for those parts.
I shall be looking out for pious prudent Men for him
I am very uneasy about
Mr. Wilberforce /he is ill/ .
Much as he has done, he has not compleated his work, and I am
base enough to fear his being called to his rest and his reward,
from a world which still wants him. * I think I never was so delighted as at his present
call of Providence.
King Henry
the first
of Hayti, late Christolphe, has sent to him to send him out
teachers in Natural and Experimental Philosophy, a Surgeon,
School Masters &&c Is it not marvellous?
But what most delights me in said King Henry is, that as
he has shaken off the French /Tyranny/ he wishes also to abolish
the French language. Accordingly W– has obtained of the Bible
Society to send him out
5000 Testaments printed in French and English in Columns!! Is not this delightful. The new King wants to make an
improved population, Wilbe.
to make a Christianized one.*
He writes to me about books Teachers &c. The latter it will
be rather difficult to procure as they should know something of
French.* I am charmed with the energy of poor infirm
Sir Joseph Bankes, who says if he were not so old he would go himself.*
I wish we could see more of this Missionary Spirit in our young
Church Ministers. By the way the
Missry. Meeting
lately held in
Bristol
raised, in these distressing times above £800 besides Jewels to a
considerable amount.*
Do you know that
the Heroic Epistle to Little Sally Horne, is just republished together with the
Search After Happiness,
Bas bleu
Florio
&c in
a little Lilliputian Volume
price only half a Crown. It is printed to match
the little Sacred Dramas
published last year.
You must know that I sold the Copy of these works many years
ago to
Cadell and Davies ;
and this year some poor Needy Booksellers have published new
Editions of these Works, this is downright piracy, and is
robbing Cadell and Davies of their lawful
property. In order to counteract these pirates Cadell has
published these small editions at this low price and
I shall be obliged to you to mention it to your friends not
to buy anything of mine (except the Tracts) which
has not the name of
Cadell & D
to it. I wish [tear] you would be so good as mention it [tear]
any booksellers you may call upon. These small
Editions sell rapidly in Bristol and London, I
suppose they are got to Bath. Many are glad to get these Poems at so easy a rate as they
were before sunk in
the Mass of 18 Volumes*. I can the
better recommend these tiny Volumes as I have no interest in
them, but I only wish to have justice done to my
Booksellers . You will excuse this long story. I congratulate You on your
Son’s
progress. God bless them both!
My Sisters , who are poorly , join in most affectionate regards to You. Mine to
Miss Horne
and the young Ones
I should regret your absence too, but that
Mr. Wilkes
told me yesterday what great good you were doing where you are. Of
that indeed I was persuaded bef[ore] [tear] A propos of Wilkes.
Have you seen his
'Christi[an] [tear] Essays'.* They only reached me last night, so that I have had
only time to read the last Essay in the first Volume which is an
excellent Review of the character and death of my dear old friend
Dr. Johnson .*
If you approve the work after reading it, I hope you will
recommend it.
I hear Lord C– goes abroad next week, and
that he has been again much indisposed – I am truly sorry, but
cannot help feeling nhow on this, as on all other
occasions, all things work together for good to them that love
God.
You have doubtless heard of
Mr. Cowan ’s Eccentricities. He
has formally renounced the Church, and is setting up a religion
of his own, if it can be called his own which is so identified
with the doctrines of Baring & Co .* He has published his
‘Reasons for quitting the Church,’
in an ill written inconsistent
Antonomian
Pamphlet.* I am glad at any rate to get such doctrines
out of the Church, but I am sorry for this misguided Man. His
principal friends have forsaken him. His inferior Adherents are
getting Subscriptions for building him a Chapel, but are not so
successful as they expected.*
They came to me and I had an hour’s conflict in justifying my
refusal to subscribe. I assured them it was not to save a few
Guineas for I had a personal kindness for Cowan, but I could
not answer it to my Conscience to give any support to a plan
which was intended to be subversive of the Establishment, and
to propagate doctrines hostile to her principles.
In the intervals of sickness
and other engagements I have been called upon to write a number of
little papers and Tracts
with a view to furnish some little antidote to the poison of
disaffection and Sedition with which too many of the lower class
are infected.* I did not at first acknowledge myself
the Author but I was found out. Seeing it could not be concealed I
have now called them
Cheap Repository Tracts.
I have given them to
Hatchard
who will be glad to serve you with as much of these penny wares
as you chuse; and pray recommend them to your friends for
dispersion among the common people,
the Songs are only three Shillings a hundred. New Tracts a
penny /each/
I have received about a hundred letters full of kindness and
condolence, and many of them, of piety – but I have felt myself
utterly unable to answer them – You will be so kind as make this
true apology to any friends who may think themselves neglected.
My health has been very bad, and neither body or mind has yet
made much progress, the former I hope is most in fault, for
I bless God my mind is I trust unrepining and submissive,
but it is still very weak. I am forbid by my
Doctor to see company, for which I am
thankful as
I have no heart to see any but two or three particular
friends in my own room – for talking brings back the complaint
in my chest.
Your excellent
Mr. Dealtry
kindly
promises to come to see me from
Bath
–
I hope it will not be till I am much better, as I should be
sorry to see him only for an hour in my chamber which
is all I can yet do.
It is grievous too that
Lord
and
Lady Teignmouth
should be at
Clifton
at this time – It is many years that we both looked
forward to seeing those dear friends for a few days, and
[deletion] now I can so little profit by their neighbourhood is
painful to me.
I hope to hear from you at your leisure
especially till Mrs. I. is better .
Mrs.
Macaulay
and Selina kindly promise to come to
relieve my Solitude soon
–
My complaint in my eyes must apologize for this scrawl – This
complaint is doubtless sent as a fresh weaning and warning. The
sight is not affected, thank God.
– We can pray for each other, and prayer is one of the last
Offices of friendship – Dear
Patty
had long been much in prayer, and thought (tho she never owned it
to me) that her summons was at no great distance. May we all be
united to her and your beloved parents in God’s own time
Take notice I write upon your information for I have not yet seen
the Sermon in question. I have had much anxiety on the subject of
Mrs. Inglis . Her life is so valuable that one cannot think without deep
concern of any thing likely to affect it. I beg my kind regards to
them both, and tell
Mr. Inglis
how much I felt the sympathizing kindness of his affectionate
letter .
I am now beginning to answer with my own pen a few of the
overflowing number I have received. I have deeply felt the
affectionate kindness of many though I have not been able to
acknowledge it.
My eyes are better, but I am not yet able to use them by candle
light, which now fills a large portion of ones time.
Mrs.
Macaulay
and her daughter* who have been with me near a Month
have most kindly supplied my lack of sight.
Alas! it is Newspapers that now fill too much of ones time and
thoughts. I tremble for our country politically and morally. I do
not know my own nation we certainly are not that England
I once knew, and must always love. I look to
the death of the king as the completion of our calamities .
Rivington
has asked leave to collect into
a [tear]le cheap book the Tracts and ballads agai[nst] [tear]
Se[dition] [tear] and blasphemy I wrote in the last year or two,
as they will now come from the Organ of Orthodoxy,
I hope they may make their way,
you must recommend the dispersion of them to all who come in
your way
I shall order one to be sent to
Mr.
Inglis .*
A kind, agreeable, long and interesting letter from dear
Miss Sparrow should be answered directly
but that I am in deep arrears to your Ladyship.
Nothing can be more obliging than her little details, than
which nothing makes letters so pleasant.
Public events are just now of so complicated & overwhelming a
nature that even to touch upon /them/ would fill my paper and
occupy your time to little purpose. I truly pity
the K–* How surely does God at one time or other visit our
errors and bring our sins to remembrance! How he will get
extricated the wisest seem not to know.
I have just got a letter from a friend whose habits lay open
much information to him.
He tells me that a Gentleman of his acquaintance on whom the
firmest reliance may be placed is lately come from the Continent.
Passing through a small town in
Italy
he stopped at an Inn and desired to see a good bed. On being shown
one, he said it was not large enough for him and his Wife –"Not
large enough," said the Mistress of the Inn, "why
the Princess of Wales
and the Baron her Chamberlain Slept in it last week, and so they
have done twenty times before and they never complained that it
was too small." You don’t mean that they slept together said the
gentleman? Yes replied the woman I do, as they have always done."
One or two such testimonies woud be proof positive. But then in
what a distracted state would it place this poor country.*
– I fear we are emulating
France
in all its parricidal horrors! What a Providential escape of the
Ministers I grieve to think what a flood of drunkenness, idleness
and perjury
this premature Parliamentary election
will introduce, – A propos.
I am desired to request your vote and interest for
Lord John Russel
who is canvassing
your county. I know nothing of him, but that I fear he is what
I call, on the wrong side. They speak well of his
talents*
Our admirable friend
at
K. Gore* wrote on
his Son’s marriage desiring me to invite them both to Barley Wood, as
he said he and
his wife
had come hither immediately after their wedding 22
years ago.*
I could refuse nothing to such a petitioner So they came from
Bath and staid a day and night. He is
gentlemanly and agreeable in his manners,
mais, voila tout. She is handsome but I
thought her vapid and uninteresting.
It is /all/ very well now that they are visiting about, and the
days are all halcyon; but what is to become of them I cannot
guess, nor can their dear father.
Il faut manger dans ce pauvre Monde. And how that father is to provide a separate Establishment for
one, /who/ neither can, nor probably will do
nothing I cannot guess.* It goes to my heart as I know
he has nothing to spare, and even the youth’s education is not
finished. I shall be agreeably disappointed if he ever takes to
business. When he returns to
town
too he will meet with his old associates, Alas!!
I am thankful to say that my health is greatly improved . If I were a disciple of
Prince Hohenloe * it would be called a Miracle.
I do not go out, but am able to see my friends. Indeed my
excellent Physician finds fault that I see
too much company, but I cannot well avoid it, tho I suffer upon
it .
I hope you will recommend my friend
Cottle’s
‘Plymouth Antinomians’*. It ably exposes the worst heresy that ever
infected the Church.
I have been above a year and half confined to my room. I bless
God I do not feel any impatience to quit it, which they will not
allow me to do till the warm weather is confirmed. I am
generally able to see my friends two or three hours in the
middle of the day. They are very kind, but my Physician
complains that I see too much company.
This is sometimes the case, but when they come from a distance,
I cannot refuse seeing them; I have /had/ no one to dinner or
sleep. The Bp of Gloucester indeed is a
privileged person. If any do come My friend entertains
them below.
I am rather more than usually unwell to day, but I would
no longer delay to intreat you my dear Lady to think no
more of my little begging petition. If any apology were
necessary your immense building expences would be more
than sufficient, but none is necessary.
I have just received my little legacy from Mrs.
Garrick* which will carry me thro’ the exigencies of
the present season sufficiently, and I may not live to another.
Your charities are too extensive to excuse any one from proposing
new ones to you;
Even in my little way I find five applications for one
I used to have, what then must yours be!
How shall I sufficiently thank you for your very great kindness
in sending me such a bountiful supply. I had not reckoned on so
large a Sum, and it will set me at ease as to some excesses into
which I have been almost irresistibly drawn.
I must /have/ contracted some of my concerns if I were younger;
but
never reckoning upon another year I do not think it right to
distrust Providence by abridging my little Schemes
– Little indeed compared to the ample extent of Yours. Only think
of the graciousness of God to give you the heart as well
as the means to educate, and thus rescue from ignorance,
and as far as human exertion can go, from Sin, every child in your
Parish! under your own immediate /Eye/ too!
Oh
The Magnitude of the good cannot be estimated. But oh to
anticipate those cheering words
Well done good and faithful Servant, enter Thou into the joy of
the Lord!*
If I were not on the very verge of Eternity, I should
earnestly request (what I dare not now give you the trouble)
for a copy of your plans, as I know all yours are will
digested; but
I shall never again visit my schools
(which are unfortunately at a distance) * Yet
my young /Friend/
does what she can, and visits them when the weather permits, and
I should be gratified to furnish her with any instructions of
yours.
Her heart is much in the business. She has a cultivated &
pious Mind
You will see by the inclosed that I have embarked in another of my
adventurous Sallies.
Will you /will/ have the goodness to circulate it
It pleases my heavenly Father to have spared me to a great age,
to give me more time for repentance and preparation.
Thro the piety and kindness of
an excellent young Lady, a Niece to Lord Exmouth who almost lives with me, I am enabled
to carry on
my numerous distant Schools,
Female friendly Societies
&c. She is hands and eyes to me.
I feel it a sort of shame to take charity Money from a County
Member*, whose unbounded liberality I well know is
not shut up within the limits of that County.
– My Man
Charles
is out from four in the morning to endeavour to buy 100 sacks of
Potatoes. On hearing it the Farmers raised the price!! I am turned
Merchant
They ask me for bread and give me a Stone*. I am purchasing their Ore* at half price
which I trust will sell hereafter.
Be so good as speak to the
King, and desire him with my Compliments to use brass Harness, it
would become the fashion and my Miners would become
Gentlemen
– all the Geology /I know/ is that Lapis Calaminaris makes brass,
so you see I am not /one/ those Scientific people who do not turn
their knowledge to account. Present me most affectionately to dear
Lady Acland
–
In great haste
I return you a hundred thanks for your nice benison to me, and
a thousand thanks for your kind present to my dear kind
Physician . He was so delighted and so proud, and got
together a grand party who dined most luxurious.
You really conferred a great obligation on me by /it./
He has been attending me daily Six weeks sometimes /twice/, and he
will never take a Fee
I must write one line to thank for
your two letters ,
which I do with the more pleasure because they were written in so
good a hand, so neat and free from blots. By this obvious
improvement you have intitled yourself to another book.
You must go to Hatchard’s and chuse. I
think we have nearly exhausted the Epics. What think you of a
little good prose? – Johnson’s Hebrides*
or
Walton’s Lives* – unless you would like
a neat Edition of Cowper’s Poems * or of
Paradise Lost* for your own
eating* – In any case chuse something which
you do not possess.
– I want you to become a complete Frenchman that I may give you
Racine
the only Dramatic Poet I know in any modern language that is
perfectly pure and good.* On second thoughts what say
you to
Potter’s Eschylus * on attendant that you are a complete Grecian? – It
is very finely done and as heroic as any of your Epics. If you
prefer it Send for this to
Hatchard’s
neatly bound.
I think you have hit off the Ode very well, I am much obliged
to you for the Dedication . I shall reserve your translation to see how progressive your
improvement is. Next Summer if it please God I hope We shall talk
over some of these things. Remember me kindly to
Your Pappa
and
tell him I cannot say how much I am obliged to him for his
kindness to poor Shepherd*.
He has made the Widow’s heart to sing for joy* – O Tom! that is better, and will be found so in the
long /run/ to have written as good an Ode as
Horace
himself*.
I write a hasty line to take advantage of
Mr. Addington ’s Patent Frank * to send you a Specimen of my
learned labours.
I was earnestly desired by some high persons to do something
towards an Antidote for the evil Spirit of insurrection which is
at work more busily perhaps than you are aware.
The Tract inclosed I have adapted to the present
times , and it is widely circulated.*
Perhaps you would like to order some copies from
Hatchard, and recommend Your Friends to do the same.
I own I do not feel disposed to make Hazard any compensation for
what I know has been a gainful business to him. He thinks there is
a deal of money and he may get a share. I will give you an
instance of his covetousness.
He has just recommd.
to me his Nephew as Master of my new School at
Wedmore
with a high character. His /Man/ has been in trade and faild for
want of Capital. As usual I found I must pay his debts before I
coud get him, but he and his wife seemd such superior people I
thought it right to put up with this /loss./ It was 30 or 40£
– I proposed to Hazd.
to advance £15 only which he was to be repaid but he refused for
so near a relation and has thrown the debt in my hands. I must
pay £25 or lose the Man To help out this /Expence/
I assure you I refused to have any medical Assistance after
my Accident for being so far from Bristol I know it wou’d cost
a great deal.
Will you forgive my troubling You to let some friend or Servant
who goes to Town pay for my Book Cases,
as you were so kind to bespeak them I thought it best the Money
should go thro’ you. Pray let the Maker know I like them
exceedingly
With the Six Shillings that will remain will you buy Maise
[unclear] a handkerchief as a little remembrance.
