| Description | Written from Camerton, to the British Legation, Athens.
Thanks for his letter, although it gave her little comfort, with his having been very ill again: gratitude to God for his preservation: considerations of health and risk to life, even disregarding his other causes for concern ("dullness of situation, bad society, laborious occupation, personal hardships, privation of comforts, loneliness of heart, length of absence") being enough to over-ride his concern for duty: her wish not to urge him, out of feminine weakness, to do that which is painful to him, but her hope of his return to England: her grief at the death of his friend Count d'Armansberg's daughter: a request for leave to England on account of bad health not meaning an end to his profession: Lady Howe being far from well.
Sheet, with 4 pages of text. Numbered "46", with note that No. 45 had been written on 29 Oct but not numbered. |