| Disgrifiad | Brother William, who with his spouse and Mr Owen of Orielton came to town yesterday sevenight, has been extremly ill though he is now in a fair way of recovery. His sickness is the jaundice and St Anthony's fire. Details of his ailment. Hears that he [William] is to go to Bath to try whether that place will do him any service & believes he is resolved upon it when he gets over the bout. Mr William Owen told the writer it would be very proper that his brother should settle his affairs, which seemed to the writer as if he [Mr Owen] has no thoughts of chasing the writer's brother out of his estate.
Finds no prospect of having any money; Morrice [Lewis] is afraid of mentioning anything about it lest it should irritate the writer's brother and perhaps so far as to give away his estate to the writer's sister. Goes to see his brother every day; is a 'great chap' with Mrs Owen and his sister and is daily invited to dine and sup with them. Wishes they would invite him to draw some of their pictures, but doesn't hear a syllable of that. Has no news to send Wynne but that it is very sickly in London, and that there is scarce one in a thousand that has escaped this raging cold. The writer is one of the small number; his brothers have had it |