| Description | My dear Sir,
I am grieved beyond measure to find by Patty's letter that you expected a more circumstantial account of your daughter than it was in my power to give, but all I cou'd learn from herself I told you, and I believe she is hurt that she cannot get the surgeons to declare their opinion to her, and from that very circumstance cannot report of herself so fully as she wou'd otherwise do. My letter, however, I intended shou'd give you as accurate an account as possible without exaggeration or diminution, and if it did not I am very sorry.
Your letter to your daughter shall go to her very early in the morning.
I am in haste but always most affectionately yours,
C. Matthews
I will write again to-morrow if I can learn any thing new. One house in London has 130 tons of foreign copper for which can get no sale; about one per cent. less than five will take £120 per ton and probably give six months' credit.
[Edited transcript.] |