How my heart thanks you for your considerate kindness, (under such accumulated anxieties) in remembering me and causing me so frequently to hear of your goings on. I received M^r. Hodson’s letter from Falmouth very soon after that from Miss Sparrow dated Gibraltar. But tho to hear of you was a great comfort to me, I lament that no account of comfort to yourself has reached me. M^r. Hodson’s report indeed of dearest Millicents Attack was a fresh source of regret and sorrow. Most heartily do I beseech our Merciful Father that the occasion of this additional affliction may be totally removed, /&/ that you may not as the Apostle says, have sorrow upon sorrow.^[2] To the all Wise Dispenser of our sufferings as well as our blessings, I am however deeply thankful that ‘ your Soul prospers and is in health.’^[3] May the Holy Spirit the Blessed, indeed the only Substantial Comforter, continue to support, console, and strengthen you. These troubles tho not joyous but grievous, will I trust multiply upon you the peaceable fruits of Righteousness. In the mean time your health is the Object of my extreme solicitude. Be as careful of it as you can, for you have much more to do in this world. Did I mention in my last that our dear friend Lewis Way, with M^r. Marsh and two converted Jews spent a day here lately on their road to Petersburgh where this noble, romantic, heroic being is going on a Jewish Mission with the above named Companion ^[4] The Polish Jew had been ordained the day before by our beloved Bishop of G– the other Jew a German, the next day sent me a very pretty English Sonnet, correct and rather elegant.^[5] Way proposes shutting up these Converts for six Months to study the Russian and other Northern languages that they may preach in those frozen climates. M^rs. Way generously consents to this Crusade. Before we parted Marsh concluded the visit with a very fine affecting prayer. May God bless them and their enterprize! The amiable Enthusiast has heard of some little /white/ stone Church in the Crimea in which he has set his heart on preaching.

Last Week we had our Annual Bible Meeting. It was a very good one, good collection, & good speaking We had 29 Clergymen of the Establishment. Poor Patty was not able to attend, but notwithstanding her bad health, we supported the good cause by inviting about 60 to dinner and 120 to tea. We had a good many Clifton friends. Lady Lifford the Powys’s Miss Methuen, (who looked woefully) and her brother Tom who made a speech. I have had a very pious letter from poor Lord Edward^[6] who feels his loss deeply, but submits to the hand which inflects [sic] it [tear] You will have felt for poor Mad^e. de Staël.^[7] W[hat] [tear] good might she not have done with those super eminent talents! May she have found Mercy! Sir T. and Lady Acland came to us last week H[e is] [tear] a fine noble minded creature, and I hope will be an instrument of much good.

My dearest Madam now that you are no longer buffeted about by the Waves, I hope you will recover a little strength and flesh, two articles in which I could wish to see you a little more abound. I will not close this scrawl till I have insisted upon it that you do not think of answering it. I love you too well to allow you to write, I hope you have quite suspended the arc of your pen; in case of any change for better or worse You will I know cause some one to give me a line. Pray get Cooper’s Letters^[8] (the Sermon writer) They are admirable, both informing and entertaining. Bean’s Sermons^[9] are also valuable. I suppose you have got Pearson’s Life of Buchanan^[10] Wilkes’s Essays^[11] are very good.

Your party I find is a good deal broken. Pray remember me most kindly to my two dear young friends. They have my prayers. P. joins me in best regards to M^r. Obins.