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been a shabby Correspondent in not replying before this Time to the kind Letter in which she told me Saville had received Benefit from the Sea – an Event that I cordially rejoice to hear & I should have told her so before had not the two great Poets Cowper & Milton engrossed my attention – one as my Guest & the other as the Object of the little & interrupted Study that an Invalid can pursue at this idle time of the Year —

I shall hope soon to hear that you are comfortably settled at Home again after your marine excursion & considerably the better for yr bathing — the dear Boy is now quite well again but He lately caught a sad cold that obliged us to apply the severe discipline of a Blister behind his Ear – His hearing however thank Heaven has not been injured & He is not so well that