| Description | Written from Kew, addressed to Phippy.
Apologies for troubling him again, with Thornton not executing the commission he gave him: George, unknown to Ernest, having struck his eye yesterday with a piece of ivory or bauble at the end of his purse, and taken his lessons this morning without complaint: after dinner his playing with his wheelbarrow and all at once saying he could only see its wheel, but later going out shooting, and shooting a rabbit: his complaining since of only being able to see from the side: his eye having been bathed with warm water and rose water which the boy says did much good: request for waller to call tomorrow morning and see what ails him: his bruised eye now seeming to be bloodshot and the eyelid swollen from the blow: his being much provoked that he had been unaware of it when Waller called, as he would have asked him to look at it.
Wednesday night, 12 Sep 1832.
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