| Description | Written from Camerton Court.
Apology for delay in writing, caused by negotiations to bring their Chancery court suit hopefully to an end, albeit at great sacrifice, having had to pay £1700 legal fees, and involvement in fighting the coal company, which wants a further decrease in "freeshare": joy that he is feeling better, with hope that the air at Ostend will do him good: sharing of her experiences of believing she was going backwards in her Christian faith, giving only lip-service in prayer and lacking in humility: two impressive sermons preached at church by Wilfrid [Jarrett] and Ralph Berners, the latter on the consequences of going back and falling from grace: her own preaching to others, while doing nothing herself: her thoughts on prayer occasioned by reading of theology books: her forgetfulness of God: her brother understanding her troubles the most: congratulations on his Commentary, gaining Uncle White's approval: her mornings devoted to Birdie and her afternoons to letters and business, leaving little time for exercise: a subscription for lithographs of their father, and the difficulty of getting good portraits made: Birdie being able to read well and Emily having a sweet disposition and able to say most things, but not always comprehensibly: prospect of going to Weston super Mare for 2 weeks: the Wilfrids staying: John going to Goodwood: having 60 to dine for school feast: the kindness of the Robinsons during Ernest and Louisa's late sad trial: re-reading his letter, with the true Christian sentoments expressed.
She addresses him as Pothy, his childhood name.
21-23 July [year is likely to be 1843, as Ernest and Louisa lost a child, Mary Nutcombe Waller, baptized 29 Mar 1843].
Four sheets, with 19 pages of text, including 3 pages cross-hatched. |