Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Sarah Stoddart, undated [1805 Nov.].

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Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Sarah Stoddart, undated [1805 Nov.].

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Praising Stoddart as "the best letter-writer ... in the world." Referencing Stoddart's unhappy time in Malta, and welcoming her back to England, discussing her plans to chaperone Stoddart about London. Describing her and Charles's depression, noting "it has been sad and heavy times with us lately: when I am pretty well, his low spirits throws me back again; and when he begins to get a little chearful, then I do the same kind office for him." Mentioning that they frequently "fall a-crying, and say we will be better on the morrow." Discussing the illness of Stoddart's mother, urging her to treat her with tenderness. Imploring Stoddart to not let her mother's illness afflict her too deeply, noting "I speak from experience, and from the opportunity I have had of much observation in such cases, that insane people, in the fancy's they take into their head, do not feel ... the perception of having done wrong."

1 item (4 p., with address) ; 31.8 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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