| Description | Written from Camerton, to Pope's Villa, Twickenham, Middlesex.
Joy at hearing he is in better health and spirits: sorry at his disapproval of Dr Jephson: hopes of his finding someone who will make him as happy as Louisa makes Ernest: her prayers for the same, subject to God's will, with thoughts on the sincerity of her fervent praying for things she wants and faith in prayer in general: father more comfortable and happy than when Wathen left him and in no need of him: husband well and busy, while she is also busy but with a cold and headache: her school prospering in her absence: rain to prosper flower garden. She signs herself off as Kittie, a childhood name.
Sheet, with 6 pages of text, with 2 pages cross-hatched.
[This must be shortly before Wathen proposed to Catherine Wise, eldest daughter of Henry Wise, the marriage taking place on 20 October 1836.] |