Description | Addressed to Phippy: regret at finding the cause of his long silence ill health, which he attributes as a nervous malady caused by anxiety for Mrs Jarrett, now convalescent: the precarious state of health of the Duke of York, believed to be water on the chest: the improved health of the King: feeling low at the mention of Kew Green, but not feeling capable of living there at the age of 55: his managing to live comfortably where he is, without debts, with complaints at his income not growing since his marriage, while his married brothers have 35000 a year: admission of melancholy at the thought of possibly having been useful to his brother at home or on the continent, and at his separation from him and his family, but feeling happy at having the best of wives and a fine healthy son. Sheet, with 4 pages of text. |