ED 360 03 07 01

ED 360 03 07 01

Fanny Keate: Letter from Dr Brown

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13 May 1805

From Berlin. From Dr Brown to Dr Keate expressing great concern about the marriage of William Brown whose wife 'has been brought up in such a life of fashionable elegance and dissipation as renders her very unfit for the wife of a poor officer who has no more than his pay to depend upon'. Would she be able to manage in India? should she be left behind? Would William keep up payments to her if she was? So harrassed and uneasy worrying about William he has no rest either at day or night. How hard that a Father should not wish to see his only son before he 'undertakes a voyage to the opposite side of this terrestrial globe'. Sorry the letter is so long about his 'poor unthinking inconsiderate son' Dr Keate and Fanny are very dear to him. His letter of credit for £500 could not be in better hands. Leaving Berlin soon. Visiting Eton. Reluctant to go back into the turbulent ocean of Medical Practices because though the study of medicine is liberal and agreeable the practice is diametrically the contrary.
On outside in pencil Dr Brown on Wm Browns marriage.
Addressed to The Rev.d J Keate, Eton College, near Windsor