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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, KESMG 1996.5.98. ALS; 4p. . Not previously published.
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Lying-in in out-of-the-way places is at this time so common in this country, that I think we have a chance of hearing
from you, almost as soon as of seeing Mr Edmondson: & therefore I write to say
that Edith is crippled with a swoln leg; xxx it is pretty much at ease
in bed or on the sofa, but she cannot walk except by dragging the foot, & that with much pain. About a week after the delivery she
had great pain in the left leg, – the effect of exertion during a ten hours severe labour, this went off in three or four day, the
affection then began in the other leg, & has now taken this oedematous form.xx a linement of camphor, turpentine & I know not what, – since that time we have not seen him, & the swelling
has increased & become more decidedly oedematous. Her general health is good, nor is there any thing to complain of in any other
respect.
I may also report to you, as perhaps you may not have met with a similar instance, the case of young Irontripes. He began by regular motions every 24 hours, but chusing when he about
10 days old to stop for 36 it was then thought proper to give him some castor oil – which remained in him 12 hours more – & then
produced two motions, – but without any appearance of indurationr Underwoods book was in the house.xxx very seldom can give, facts & opinions which set me
quite at ease, – & upon his directions a dry clister was applied which produced immediately a perfectly soft healthy
stool. And in this way he goes on, – only that we do not wait beyond from 24 to 30 hours. Meantime he eats, takes the breast like a
sucking lion, & sleeps, – & seems to have the limbs & fibre of a young Sampson.& in
His name is to be Charles Cuthbert, – the former
appellation to please his two Peters,xxxxx by
sometimes bellowing like one of the Bulls of Basan.
About a week more will bring me to the last Chapter of my Brazil, – which is to be a general view of the state of that
wide country at the time of the removal of the Court, – when the history terminates.r Marchno memoranda
which might appear trifling to himself, would not be so to me. For this is a great mosaic work in which every little stone is of value
when it fits its place. Now that I am so near the close I really look upon this work with wonder, to think of what materials it has
been composed & with what labour they have been collected & arranged.
The Dutch call Godfathers & Godmothers by the queer name of Peters & Meters. Mrs Vardon is to be Ogs Meter. Three Peters offerd themselves too late –
Ch. Townsend. Sir G. Beaumont, & John May.
–Two Peters being required for a boy, I think Elmsley might be
allowed to do for both, – he being equal to any other two Peters in the world.