| Description | Dear Friend,
I am in great hopes from the late accounts I have received of your health, and from Miss Boulton's and Miss Alston's assurances to Mrs. Sarah Turner on Thursday, that you are certainly in a state of convalescence.
I have often with pleasure reflected upon the fortunate protection Doctor Beddoes has favoured you with, and the judicious guard of Doctor Carmichael and of your own perseverance. I have forbore troubling you with my affairs and now send this packet not that you should read it immediately, but that I might have the satisfaction of knowing that I had not neglected to give you the opportunity. I have sent copies to principal creditors in Scotland, and to Mr. Capper for Mrs. Barker and her son and Doctor Gilby, and to Doctor Simson as representative to Mr. Chace, and shall send one to Mr. Nicholls and Messrs. Stevenson & Salt. It is a comfortable consolation to me to see that now all my family creditors may by an amicable measure have their debts paid.
That you may live many happy years is among the first wishes of your most affectionate and grateful friend,
Samuel Garbett |