My Dear Brother
Though I am uncertain whether
this may ever reach you, yet as there is a chance
of your coming to Bristol I can’t omit writing
a few lines to thank you for your kind Letter
which I have just receiv’d and it has I assure
you afforded me very great entertainment, I am
extremely glad that you and Charles meet with
so much amusement in your Cambrian Tour, I
am delighted with your account of those Romantic
Scenes and often wish myself with you upon
those Cloud capt mountains I have not yet
met with M^r Windham’s Tour but shall be glad
to read it the first opportunity.
Last Friday I din’d with my Aunts to celebrate
your Birthday, and we all drank your health
in Orange Wine, very sincerely wishing you
many happy returns of that day.
I am now reading Goldsmith’s animated nature
which entertains me extremely. I have not
met with a Book to please me so much a great
while.
I have lately heard by M^r C. Smyth of
the Death of M^rs Brompton, she died the latter
end of May of a Cancer in her Breast.

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at Broughton green Fair which is always on
Midsummer-day I had the pleasure of meeting
a great many of my old acquaintance out
of Buckinghamshire. M^rs Throckmorton with
two sons and two Daughters, m^rs Uthwate, Miss
Lowndes’ &c. M^rs Throckmorton very obligingly
ask’d me to come to stay with her when I went
into Bucks.
If you should happen to be at Bristol on a
Sunday both Charles and you would be very
much pleas’d at hearing D^r Stonehouse Preach
there is something particularly fine in his
manner, you may easily enquire what Church
he preaches at for that I can’t inform you,
but I am sure you w^d both like to hear him
I am very glad you found them at home
when you went to Kenilworth, and that you
made a Visit at Combe, is not that an
enchanting woman?
I thank you for the Letter you wrote just
before you set out, I have rec^d the note from Town
you are much in the right to take everything
worth seeing in your way, I don’t understand
the route you propose taking, but I suppose

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you will return a different way from that
you go, and will I hope meet with everything
agreable. My kind love to Charles I am oblig’d
to him for the addition he made to your
Letters, I hope you will both continue to write
to me as you proceed on your journey, so you
can’t imagine the satisfaction it is to me to
hear how you go on, so whenever you have a
quarter of an hours leisure you will by a
few lines give the sincerest pleasure to
my Dear Brother
your Ever affect, and Faithful
Char[damaged]

Tuesday July 9. 1776

[f.18v]

To
George W^m Johnson Esq^r
to be left till call’d for
at the Post-Office
Bristol

My Dear Brother
Though I am uncertain whether
this may ever reach you, yet as there is a chance
of your coming to Bristol I can’t omit writing
a few lines to thank you for your kind Letter
which I have just received and it has I assure
you afforded me very great entertainment, I am
extremely glad that you and Charles meet with
so much amusement in your Cambrian Tour, I
am delighted with your account of those Romantic
Scenes and often wish myself with you upon
those Cloud capped mountains I have not yet
met with M^r Windham’s Tour but shall be glad
to read it the first opportunity.
Last Friday I dined with my Aunts to celebrate
your Birthday, and we all drank your health
in Orange Wine, very sincerely wishing you
many happy returns of that day.
I am now reading Goldsmith’s animated nature
which entertains me extremely. I have not
met with a Book to please me so much a great
while.
I have lately heard by M^r C. Smyth of
the Death of M^rs Brompton, she died the latter
end of May of a Cancer in her Breast.

[f.17v]

at Broughton green Fair which is always on
Midsummer-day I had the pleasure of meeting
a great many of my old acquaintance out
of Buckinghamshire. M^rs Throckmorton with
two sons and two Daughters, m^rs Uthwate, Miss
Lowndes’ &c. M^rs Throckmorton very obligingly
asked me to come to stay with her when I went
into Bucks.
If you should happen to be at Bristol on a
Sunday both Charles and you would be very
much pleased at hearing D^r Stonehouse Preach
there is something particularly fine in his
manner, you may easily enquire what Church
he preaches at for that I can’t inform you,
but I am sure you w^d both like to hear him
I am very glad you found them at home
when you went to Kenilworth, and that you
made a Visit at Combe, is not that an
enchanting woman?
I thank you for the Letter you wrote just
before you set out, I have rec^d the note from Town
you are much in the right to take everything
worth seeing in your way, I don’t understand
the route you propose taking, but I suppose

[f.18]

you will return a different way from that
you go, and will I hope meet with everything
agreeable. My kind love to Charles I am obliged
to him for the addition he made to your
Letters, I hope you will both continue to write
to me as you proceed on your journey, so you
can’t imagine the satisfaction it is to me to
hear how you go on, so whenever you have a
quarter of an hours leisure you will by a
few lines give the sincerest pleasure to
my Dear Brother
your Ever affect, and Faithful
Char[damaged]

Tuesday July 9. 1776

[f.18v]

To
George W^m Johnson Esq^r
to be left till call’d for
at the Post-Office
Bristol