| Description | (Directed to Mrs. Matthews', Green Lettice Lane.)
Dear Friend,
I thank you kindly for your letter of the 31st and for the indulgence you intended to give my grandson. I anxiously waited yesterday for the result of what passed with the judges on Tuesday. I heartily wish you may escape without injury from the severe weather and dangerous streets of London.
I should be glad to hear you are returning home, for surely London must be extremely uncomfortable. I am afraid my worthy friend Nicholls has not established health; if you have opportunity, I wish you would be so good as to call of him, tho' I have nothing particular to say worth troubling you with.
Accept my thanks for my correspondence with Glasgow; I am afraid that the expence of carriage will prevent its proving as I hoped.
Surely pacific as well as vigorous warlike measures should be promoted as will have a tendency to produce a speedy peace. Our calamitous situation must soon occasion desperate consequences.
I am sorry to see your account of Mr. Watt's health. I wish you to present me respectfully to him and to Mrs. Matthews.
I am, my dear friend, most affectionately and gratefully yours,
Samuel Garbett
Mrs. Sarah Turner is at Shenston.
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