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Guardian Angel, the Health & Genius of my admirable Friend, this excellent woman was deprived of half her Existence by a paralytic Stroke — never was domestic distress more severe – I was afraid it must overwhelm the Spirit & the Reason of the tender afflicted Poet; & had I not been with Him, He kindly says, it would have utterly crushed Him –

Heaven blest me on the Occasion with great presence of Mind – I not only comforted my Friend; but was medically useful to the dear Sufferer in no trifling degree — I fortunately discovered an electrical Apparatus in the Village, which, tho incomplete & disused, I soon got into order, & played the salutary Fire upon the injured Limbs with such success, that before I left the House I had the inexpressible delight of restoring our dear Lady to a little use of the Limbs she had lost — I procured the best advice, as to Medecine [sic] &c, from my Friend dr Austin, my favourite physician in London! & thus became, as I said before, an humble Instrument in the blessed work of restoring both the enchanting Poet & his venerable Muse – My sensations on this very wonderful & happy Event you will more easily conceive than I can describe —– Cowpers Letters to me since my