LEWIS

saying that he intends to “accept your invitation on Thursday: if it is inconvenient to receive me on that day, you must direct to me at Barnes, otherwise I shall not hear from you... I congratulate Brook on his safe arrival after all ‘his moving accidents by flood and field’; I expect to hear shortly of his being gone to Gretna Green with some female Blackamoor ‘who loved him for the dangers he had past’...”, 1 side 8vo., Barnes, Monday no date, annotated in another hand as 6th November