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To his Stepmother
ОглавлениеNovember, 1758.
Dear Madam,
A VISIT TO LONDON
I arrived in town between four and five o'clock safe and well, though almost frozen. – Turton[14] was not to be found, but I will endeavour to see him to-morrow; though I believe that change of air and scene will be of greater benefit to me, than any prescriptions he can order me. – I write from Mrs. Porten's,[15] who begs to be remembered to you in the kindest terms. She is totally ignorant of forms, but will see Mrs. Darrel to-morrow morning and endeavour to settle everything. Let me entreat you, my dearest Mrs. Gibbon, to try to divert thoughts, which cannot be suppressed, and believe me that I can only be easy as I have reason to think that you are so.
I am, Dear Madam,
Most truly yours,
E. G.
Dean's Yard. Tuesday Evening. Nine o'clock.
My sincerest compliments wait on Mr. and Mrs. Bayley. I wish they would recollect anything in which I could be useful to them in town.
Footnote_14_14
Dr. John Turton (1736-1806) was in 1782 appointed physician to both the King and Queen. He attended Goldsmith on his death-bed. His progress to fame and fortune was very rapid, and when he died he left his widow £9000 a year in land, and £60,000 in the funds. "The bulk of his great fortune he has bequeathed, after the death of his wife, to her Royal Highness the Princess Mary, their Majesty's fourth daughter" (Annual Register, April 15, 1806).
Footnote_15_15
Miss Porten had now removed from College Street to a large boarding-house which she had built in Dean's Yard, Westminster.
