Whitehall, Nov. 18th, 1788.
MY DEAR BROTHER,
I do not find from Pitt that he learnt anything very particular
yesterday in addition to what you already know. The King continues
much quieter, but still deranged in his intellects and
conversation. The fever has not yet entirely left him. The
physicians seem very unwilling to say anything with respect to his
situation, and declare that it must still be eight or ten days
before they can pronounce at all decisively as to the nature of his
disorder.
You seem, in your letter, to conceive the point of his recovery to
be much more desperate than I understand it to be thought even
after a derangement of months, or even years. There hardly passes a
day in which one does not hear of cases of that sort, and we are
now told that a disorder of this sort has appeared in several
instances in Devonshire in the course of this autumn, where the
patient has been in this way for six weeks together, and has then
entirely recovered.