My dear Brother
I am much obliged to you for
your kind letter and am only sorry you could think
it not worth while to send the one you wrote too
late to enclose in a former letter of Charles’s. The
only reason for my fixing next week for coming into
Lincolnshire was from a wish (as I had been
disappointed in meeting you in London) of paying
my respects to you as early as possible, but I
shall be equally happy to wait on you at
Stamford after your return from your tour, in which
I heartily wish you much pleasure. If you
could so contrive it, it would make us vastly
happy if you could make Combe Abbey in
your way home again, M^rs Johnson says if you
will not come to see her xxx she wishes
so much to see you, that you will provoke her
to come into Lincolnshire, and then she thinks
you must return her visit, but as the little

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folks are yet too young to travel, she hopes you will
be so kind to indulge us by letting us see you at Combe
this year, and when any of the children are big enough
to pay their respects to you she will return your visits
with interest. She desires me to say this with her best
compliments. I have quite got rid of my lameness and
am able to walk as well as ever; your advice of riding
constantly I believe is excellent, and I certainly will put it
in practise it as far as I can, and if the gout does come
again I must bear it with as much patience as I
can, it is rather too early in Life to be attended by
so troublesome a companion, but I hope I shall find the
maxim verified that it carries off all other disorders.
We expect Lord Craven here the latter end of this
month to attend the Rugby Trust meeting, and we shall
probably before the end of the summer pay him and
shall not stay long it will not prevent us seeing you
my dear Brother; it will give us great pleasure to hear
what sea bathing {^^place} you fix upon and how you like
your situation there. Combe is vastly pleasant this

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very hot weather, for by shifting from room to room we
can always make a tolerably cool climate. Adieu my
dear Brother believe me
your sincerely affectionate
RA Johnson

Combe Abbey
1^st July Tuesday

M^rs Craven desires her compliments

[f.63v]

G.W. Johnson esq^r
at Frome’s Hotel
Covent Garden
London

My dear Brother
I am much obliged to you for
your kind letter and am only sorry you could think
it not worth while to send the one you wrote too
late to enclose in a former letter of Charles’s. The
only reason for my fixing next week for coming into
Lincolnshire was from a wish (as I had been
disappointed in meeting you in London) of paying
my respects to you as early as possible, but I
shall be equally happy to wait on you at
Stamford after your return from your tour, in which
I heartily wish you much pleasure. If you
could so contrive it, it would make us vastly
happy if you could make Combe Abbey in
your way home again, M^rs Johnson says if you
will not come to see her xxx she wishes
so much to see you, that you will provoke her
to come into Lincolnshire, and then she thinks
you must return her visit, but as the little

[f.62v]

folks are yet too young to travel, she hopes you will
be so kind to indulge us by letting us see you at Combe
this year, and when any of the children are big enough
to pay their respects to you she will return your visits
with interest. She desires me to say this with her best
compliments. I have quite got rid of my lameness and
am able to walk as well as ever; your advice of riding
constantly I believe is excellent, and I certainly will put it
in practise it as far as I can, and if the gout does come
again I must bear it with as much patience as I
can, it is rather too early in Life to be attended by
so troublesome a companion, but I hope I shall find the
maxim verified that it carries off all other disorders.
We expect Lord Craven here the latter end of this
month to attend the Rugby Trust meeting, and we shall
probably before the end of the summer pay him and
shall not stay long it will not prevent us seeing you
my dear Brother; it will give us great pleasure to hear
what sea bathing {^^place} you fix upon and how you like
your situation there. Combe is vastly pleasant this

[f.63]

very hot weather, for by shifting from room to room we
can always make a tolerably cool climate. Adieu my
dear Brother believe me
your sincerely affectionate
RA Johnson

Combe Abbey
1^st July Tuesday

M^rs Craven desires her compliments

[f.63v]

G.W. Johnson esq^r
at Frome’s Hotel
Covent Garden
London