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TitleLetter from Princess Sophia to Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller
Datec1830s
DescriptionRegret at not seeing him, but her having left home to visit of the Duchess of Kent and also to get a change of air, as recommended by Sir Henry Halford: arrangements for her to be there for 2 or 3 nights, with a room on the ground floor: having seen Alexander yesterday, with leeches behind the ear bleeding "like a pump" and doing her good, with instruction to drop one drop of belladonna in her eye on Monday for him to judge whether it distresses or helps the eye: her wish not to be troublesome and to avoid too many people meddling, following the example of her father: hope of wathen's affairs going on well.
16 August, no year given.
Sheet, with 1½ pages of text, handwriting difficult to decipher.
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