Endorsement: 20. July 1824.
MS: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Eng. lett. c. 26. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished.

I do not know when I have received so much pleasure as your last letter gave me. It was the greater indeed, because your silence, – & a hopeless account which reached me in the meantime from another quarter had made me apprehend the worst, & I never opened the newspaper without looking at the deaths in fear of finding what I expected there. Thank God.

You shall do as you will here: – & I will broach a barrel of strong beer for you, sent me by John May from Hampshire, – but of the Wiltshire breed. It has been more than a year in my cellar, – & it will not disgrace a Stilton cheese, if you should send one as a proper accompaniment.

I am certainly better, tho the cough has not entirely left me. But I think it is taking its departure.

God bless you
RS.

Kidd is a very good fellow: & it was a great disappointment to me that I did not see him at Oxford: – the only pleasure which I looked-on to in that place.