| Description | Written from Norfolk Street, Park Lane, to the British Embassy, Constantinople.
Her suffering a bout of influenza two days before due to be painted: fever and cold now gone but cough remaining: treatment with opium every 4 hours, but still not strong enough to attend to Mr Ross: determination to go to Froyle and return in April: congratulations on his promotion, bringing a greater salary and responsibility, at either Napoli or Athens (better places than Therapia): his meeting the King of Greece: call by Mr Mandeville, seen not by her but by her father, who is well, if aged in the face, and pleased at his appointment: Ernest lonely and looking to marry, in need of a living, with a fortune of only £20000, making £800pa: Ernest's main expenditure on books, but need to think of expenditure on clubs, schools, food, clothing and medicine for parishioners: his purchase of a clock and copy of her miniature still leaving much of Wathen's gift unspent: her own gift to her husband of £150, made by reducing her own expenditure, to be used to build a lodge: delight at his adventure with regard to a young bride saved from the Turks: burglars caught and committed to Taunton Assizes for prosecution by husband John.
Sheet with 7 pages of text, including 3 pages of cross-hatching. Numbered "18" |