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Frogmore House Sepr. 9th. 1826.

My Dear Lord and Lady Arran

The great kindness and sympathy you showed me whilst I had the Comfort of being with you, with respect to my anxiety about the health of my beloved Frederick would have led me to have troubled you with another letter, sooner than today had I had anything good to communicate. However as the four last days have regularly brought me the .............. .........that He is at a standstill. I am willing to think that the Medicines are doing their Duty, and therefore impart to your kind Hearts, that little unclear of hope. I find that His limbs had increased much in Size to be the middle of last Week, but no mention on that Subject has been made since I heard last Saturday.

Last Monday was our last fine day. I went over to Bagshot Park where I passed a very Comfortable Morning with Mary. We walked in Her beautifull Garden with the Arthur Stanhopes, and Your two pair of Ears ought to have burnt - but I think you cannot have any left now, for their repeated Crispness must have dried them off your Heads ........ Mary took me out in the chairs drawn by Her two Ponies ^addition which /addition She manages very well indeed, and after a very pretty drive I left Her at five oClock to come home. Since that Evening, we have not had a dry half hour but quite late at Night when no body but reptiles can go out for pleasure. Lady Mary Taylor and I have passed our time very Comfortably and quietly together, reading of a Morning, and at our Work, then parted for a Couple of Hours, then met ^ addition & parted /addition again; and after dinner we had Music and Backgammon. Yesterday Miss Tupin is come to spend a few days with us, a most pleasing Amiable Person, She leaves ... on Monday when the Dear Arthur Stanhopes come till Saturday