| Description | "My father’s vexations. Uneasy about my intention of taking a house at Winson Green."
Dear Sir,
Your father is very uneasy and you are the only person who can make him happy, and I am sure you have too good a heart not to make the trial.
I do not pay your understanding so ill a compliment as to suppose for an instant that I possess an influence with you that he does not. It is not therefore from a presumption of that sort that I venture to address you upon a subject of so delicate a nature, but I am convinced that it is only from a want of a friendly communication between him and you that there is any uneasiness; and, satisfied as I am of your mutual affection, I wish to God you wou’d converse together freely upon what may appear grievances to each, and I am sure most of them wou’d be done away.
His present uneasiness seems to be at the thought of your taking a house to yourself when he so anxiously wishes you to reside at Soho. To him I have urged that you may have reasons that he is not aware of. If that is the case, a little explanation might set his mind at ease, and cou’d not in any event be attended with any harm.
I hope, my dear sir, you will pardon me for presumeing to write to you on such a subject. I can have but one motive, that of conciliating any misunderstanding that my exist; and be assured it is dictated by pure affection to both your father and yourself, being most sincerely yours,
C. Matthews
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