| Description | Written from Camerton House.
Reference in his last letter to his flagging spirits: her own suffering from depression, said to be the effects of 12 months' anxiety by Dr Bernard, who recommends shower baths: her looking old according to her husband and looking-glass: non-arrival of butter and jar of ginger: no news from Ernest, Louisa or the Sainsburys (now back at Froyle): her husband well, if under restrictions and still variable: thoughts of new garden: cost of new stables £2000: problems again with Camerton coal company: resignation of ministers, with heart-sinking prospect of O'Connel carrying all before him: father's introducing gas into Pope's Villa and sinking another £500 into a house he hates: plans possibly to go to Froyle, Warwickshire, London and Twickenham in the summer: week spent at Clifton, with Stephen well but growing fat, his sentiments on religious principles being unchanged or worse: aunt Stephens well. PS: Driver quite well but grows old and redder.
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