LETTERCLVIII.TO J—— S——, ESQ.
Dec. 7, 1780.
DEAR SIR,
I AM doubly and trebly happy, that I can in some measure remove the anxiety of the best couple in the universe. I set aside all thanks—for were I to enter into the feelings of my heart for the past and present, I should fill the sheet: but you would not be pleased.—In good truth, I have been exceeding ill—my breath grew worse—and the dropsy made large strides.—I left off medicineby consent for four or five days, swelled immoderately:—the good Dr. N—f—d eighty miles distant—and Dr. J—bb heartily puzzled through the darkness of his patient—I began to feel alarm—when, looking into your letter, I found a Dr. S—th recommended by yourself. I enquired—his character is great—but for lungs and dropsy, Sir John E—t, physician extraordinary and ordinary to his Majesty, is reckoned the first. I applied to him on Sunday morning—he received me like Dr. N—f—d;—I have faith in him.—My poor belly is so distended, that I write with pain—I hope next week to write with more ease. My dutiful respects await Mrs. S—— and self, to which Mrs. Sancho begs to be joined by her loving husband, and
Your most grateful friend,
I. SANCHO.
Mr. Sancho died December 14.
FINIS.
Transcriber's NotesThe following changes have been made to the text as printed:1. Footnotes have been located immediately below the letter within which they occur, and marked numerically.2. Apparent typographical errors have been changed.3. The subheading forLetter XCII(Page 242) has been corrected from "TO MR. H——." to "TO MRS. H——."The following anomalies in the printed text are noted, but no change has been made:1. Variable, archaic and inconsistent spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been left unchanged, apart from apparent typographical errors.2. Dashes vary in length. Shorter dashes have been rendered as —, and longer dashes as ——.3.Letter LIV(Page 144) contains a sequence of spaced hyphens, which have been reproduced as printed.4. There are two successive letters headedLETTER LXVIII(Pages 186 and 195), thesecond letterbeing out of date order.
Transcriber's Notes
The following changes have been made to the text as printed:
1. Footnotes have been located immediately below the letter within which they occur, and marked numerically.
2. Apparent typographical errors have been changed.
3. The subheading forLetter XCII(Page 242) has been corrected from "TO MR. H——." to "TO MRS. H——."
The following anomalies in the printed text are noted, but no change has been made:
1. Variable, archaic and inconsistent spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been left unchanged, apart from apparent typographical errors.
2. Dashes vary in length. Shorter dashes have been rendered as —, and longer dashes as ——.
3.Letter LIV(Page 144) contains a sequence of spaced hyphens, which have been reproduced as printed.
4. There are two successive letters headedLETTER LXVIII(Pages 186 and 195), thesecond letterbeing out of date order.