| Description | Upon receipt of Owen's letter the writer made it his business to enquire of Magdalen Williams who was and still is a sort of housekeeper at the Woodhouse. She is alive and so likely to continue. She is of a very great age and can do little, but the writer is informed that she has disposed already of most she has. So he is afraid that her god-daughter, Owen's neighbour will be disappointed in her expectation as to what this old woman promised her. The writer's wife, Owen's sister, continues to be visited with colic pains; she seldom tampers with doctors, but bears her afflictions with temper. Has settled his son Tom in the Exchequer Office of Pleas. Little progress is yet made towards the daughters' settlement; the youngest is still at school. |