ED 360 03 06 01
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ED 360 03 06 01
Title
Fanny Keate: Letter from Dr Brown to Mrs Brown
Level
Item
Date
2 January 1812
Content description
From Margaretta Farm, Writing to Mary: Resisted invitations to dine and stay with Mr Hoseason, preferring to sleep at home.
Whilst in London, met friends in Conduit Street.
Awaiting a letter from Mary for news on the effect of the blisters on the disagreeable complaint in her windpipe, which was getting better until she dined in the cold uncomfortable room at the Provosts Lodge.
Continues: Pleased to hear the blisters have had a good effect. The discharge ought to be kept up for some time with blistering ointment and warm vapour by means of an inhaler or a funnel morning and evening. Must avoid breathing cold air. Asks to send love to the girls Fanny and Annaand thank Mary for her well written letter which was a great present on New Years Day. He had noticed her improved behaviour when he was at Eton.
Returning home had to deal with staff needing to come and live in the house. Better for the loyal housekeeper Elliot that there are now more males in the house and Dr Brown has a loaded double barrelled gun in case of robbers and murderers who have not yet appeared in Marshland as at Shadwell and Wapping. Will not write for a while not wanting letters to cross. Asked away for a few days but declined as impossible and any time spent away he would prefer to be at Eton and hopes the next trip in the Winter will be longer than the last.
Signed Chas Brown. Addressed to Mrs Brown, at the res.d Dr Keate's, Eton College, near Windsor
Whilst in London, met friends in Conduit Street.
Awaiting a letter from Mary for news on the effect of the blisters on the disagreeable complaint in her windpipe, which was getting better until she dined in the cold uncomfortable room at the Provosts Lodge.
Continues: Pleased to hear the blisters have had a good effect. The discharge ought to be kept up for some time with blistering ointment and warm vapour by means of an inhaler or a funnel morning and evening. Must avoid breathing cold air. Asks to send love to the girls Fanny and Annaand thank Mary for her well written letter which was a great present on New Years Day. He had noticed her improved behaviour when he was at Eton.
Returning home had to deal with staff needing to come and live in the house. Better for the loyal housekeeper Elliot that there are now more males in the house and Dr Brown has a loaded double barrelled gun in case of robbers and murderers who have not yet appeared in Marshland as at Shadwell and Wapping. Will not write for a while not wanting letters to cross. Asked away for a few days but declined as impossible and any time spent away he would prefer to be at Eton and hopes the next trip in the Winter will be longer than the last.
Signed Chas Brown. Addressed to Mrs Brown, at the res.d Dr Keate's, Eton College, near Windsor
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