| Description | Written from 27 York Crescent, Clifton, to the British Legation, Napoli di Romania, Greece.
Husband progressing well in health, but depressed in spirits and disheartened, although more cheerful today: treatment by cupping, bleeding, leeching, blistering, physicking and starving, with getting up early and no strong exercise (no hunting): thanks for letter, his spending so much money on them with gifts, and arrival of fur cloak: sketch to be made of the new house for him: miniature with Mr Baillie but not sent yet: all going well with Ernest and the young lady, a nice, quiet, ladylike girl, suited to be a clergyman's wife, but the "awful question appears to stick in his throat": Wathen being in the midst of the plague: all at Froyle well: portrait of Aunt Stephens.
Sheet, with 5 pages of text, including 1st page cross-hatched.
Numbered "31". |