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BL Add. MS 28268, ff. 119–20
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Your parcell came last night. My Mother’s Letter contains an
earnest and pressing solicitation for my visiting her, as she said she has a bad
cold: this was dated on the 8th of April and the news of the
13th confirms that she was perhaps worse, I dont like
this news at all. do you know the real state of things there? If you do speak
out I conjure you.
I wish you could possibly go or send to Honington on Sunday and immediately
send to me on your return. And if you spare a Half Guinea, leave it and I will
pay you by parcell Monday or Tuesday next, when I will write to my Mother and to Troston. Desire her to have from the
Butcher or any one else whatever may conduce to her comfort and consolation, as
it has long been my intention with the entire concurrence of my wife to remit a
yearly or monthly allowance for the purpose abovementioned; and which I hope to
explain at large immediately. I was within a turn of a straw of coming to
Suffolk on Monday but I must have been travelling all day, and must have done
the same back again on Wednesday on account of being at the Office on Thursday morning. I could
have spent but one day with you! So I gave it up, and still determining to go
out of the smoke I took a ride down to Dorking in Surrey stayd two nights and
came back on Wednesday. I had heard of Box Hill, and the romantic scenery about
that part of the County and I was delighted beyond my most poetical
expectations. I must give some account of the excursion next week. My Vaccine
story