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Dover Castle. Octr: 2d: 1819.

Dear Mayo,

Having to acknowledge your letter of 5th Sepr: from Berne and having to enclose a letter from the Dutchess to the Countess and one from Halliday to yourself I now take up my pen: you know of course the cause of our being and remaining here and now that the Dutchess is in the land of the ablest and best medical advice and that she will not have to part either from her mother or sister or to encounter bad roads and worse inns I do trust that she will before this time twelvemonth yet become a mother: after all the care and attention both Halliday and myself paid and that