“Dear Patmore,—If you have not heard of my change of residence (not to mention perpetual and painful illness), you must wonder not to have seen me during the two months I have been in town. I therefore write to give some account of myself, and also to ask some account of you.
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“The appointment of Sir George Anson to the Lieutenant-Governorship here, with the appendage of a most capacious and convenient house, took us all from Brook Street; for we had lived happily together too long to allow either to wish to separate. So I let my Brook Street house, and accompanied him here, where we are all most comfortably settled; and but for illness, which has been long and severe, we should not have a wish ungratified as to house.
“I am, however, getting decidedly better after a long confinement, having come but once to town since we came here, and much, I own, a slave to ennui; for my complaint is most lowering, and incapacitated me from reading or writing. I have, however, begun to look over my ‘Ambition’ tracts, which amount to about a volume, though I know not in the least what to do with it, nor whether to publish it, or offer it to C. if I do. They are in the form indeed, and the continuation, of the ‘Day Dreams,’ some of which I believe you saw.
“I hope the Baroness is well, and beg my compliments to
her—adding, that I should
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“Where is Coventry, and what about? Pray tell me all you can about yourselves, and particularly whether your boy, Eugene, has got upon the establishment, as I hope he has. And so adieu, my dear Patmore.
“Believe me, as usual—that is,
