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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, KESMG 1996.5.103. ALS; 4p. . Not previously published.
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Here I am once more, safe, & if not quite sound, pretty nearly so as far as the head is
concerned. I have lost the largest & oldest of the tumours, & the place is likely to be skinned compleatly
over in a few days. I wish I could report as favourably of the other end.when at any other time. But on the first day of my return, the
part protrudes again, as I sit in my chair. I expected that six weeks of continual travelling would have braced my
whole system, bringing with it as it did a great increase of appetite. But as this has failed, xxx
only to hope the <infirmity> may not become & I see no likelihood of getting rid of the infirmity.
Dr Hope enquired for you.minute jou full journal.
I reckon it among the advantages of the journey that it has saved me from a visit to Lowther, whither I was invited to meet Prince Leopold.
How are you going on? – I know nothing of my friends affairs, – & not much about my own. I
expected to have the third vol. of Brazilwhen are
Isabel has had a swelling in the neck during my absence, & has not recovered her looks. I hope this is not scrofulous, – but it has a very suspicious appearance. & Edith May is not in such health as I could wish. The others are well – Cuthbert is grown fat, – he is very large for his age.
The Rickmans
Love to Louisa. – I have a story to tell
Mrs Gonne about the Free Masons, when we
meet.