| Description | Writes with grateful thanks for her patience regarding her [C.V's] repayment of a debt, news of which which she is keeping from her husband; she swears 'to abstain from the very taste of that infernal drug which deprives me totally of my senses, and confine myself at least for a fortnight to two pints of porter per day', and proposes the method of paying for the porter and repaying her debt which she hopes will meet with approval
20 October 1817 |