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sanguine thinks he will hardly survive another seizure like the last.

I have not seen poor M.^r Wright lately I called a few days ago & he was out, but I shall call again before I go. his Sister tells me he was (as I knew he would be) greatly affected by the death of M.^rs Beridge. She & her husband spent a few days with M^rs Twigge just before Tom’s visit to me when at her Entreaty he undertook to copy a portrait of D.^r Len from a miniature of Meyers. [sic] he had not painted of many months & was so timid that M^.rs Beridge with difficulty persuaded him to take charge of the picture which he requested should be left with M.^rs Twigge. No says M.^rs B you may feel disposed to paint & think it too great an effort to send to my Sister’s for it. She was right He finished it on a sudden. I think (& M.^r French says) it is the best portrait he ever painted – but M.^rs B after a residence at Buxton died at Stalling [Stubbing?] just as the picture arrived in Lincolnshire. In the midst of my first sorrow for M.^rs B I thought of poor M.^r