| Description | (Postmarked 8 Apr.)
My Dear precious Life
The first tribute of my Hand I’ll pay to thee for this is the first day I have been able to hold a pen, the first day I have been permitted to leave my Bed & the first day I have been alowd a little Chicken & Broth I am now in a new World methinks after a terreble fit of illness for I have a very sharp appetite & find my self comfortable in my Spirits but what has contributed more to ye latter than all the drs. cordials was the Letter your Brother was so kind as to favour me with. indeed my Love I was afraid thou wouldst have forgott me but I find thou has not thy kind concern & gentle wishes overflood my Eys & fills my heart with Gratitude. Oh my dear thou hast so delighted & Charmd me that altho I exert the utmost of my Facultys in thy favour through ye remainder of my Life yet all I shall think too little & shall ever think my Self at a fault in shewing thee how gratefull I would be. I could write for ever upon so delightfull a subject as my dear Nanney but I am now disobeying ye docters orders in writeing at all yet I could not forbare takeing ye first oppertunity. I wish my Love had come & if it is not too late now do come yet for I shall want a little Nursing & company down again. my Sister will come with thee at a minutes notice do think ont & let me know by ye return of the Post & another thing I beg you would not forget wch. is to give me immediate intellegence of your Mamma for I have not heard one word of that good Soul this Month.
My gratefull thanks & best Love waits upon thy Brother & tell him I have got two fine Metzetintos [1] for him & I believe I shall agree for a Landskip
I beg to be rememberd most dutyfully & affectionately to my dear Mamma & am with a warmer heart than I can give thee an Idea of
Thy most affectionate & dutyfull Lover to the end of time
Mattw. Boulton
London
Tuesday night
[Address-label:] To / Miss Nancy Robinson / at Mr Luke Robinsons / in Bow Street / Litchfield
[1] i.e. mezzotints. |