| Description | Written from Camerton House, to the British Legation, Athens.
Thnaks for letter and sending pretty seals: non-arrival of box fronm Constantinople: presents for Ernest's wedding (Wathen's to be a silver butter tub) at £16: husband and herself well, she after a cold: accident to groom, who was kicked in the head, and her treatments of him, with poultices and cupping (8 ounces of blood), earning Dr Cravy's praise for her prompt assistance: husband now being susceptible to cold, not wearing socks or silk stockings: finishing the house being slow work: opinions on Louisa Wise's prettiness (Ernest considering her pretty, Anna thinking her pretty in expression rather than feature, and one gentleman calling her plain) and other qualities.
Sheet, with 5 pages of text, including 1st page cross-hatched. Numbered "35". |