After having been silent longer perhaps than I ought to have been,
suffering post after post to slide away with a firm resolution to
write the very next (and what is one day's difference?), I am now as
usual driven to the sound of the bell and the verge of eleven. Will
you for once accept as a letter the information that I am perfectly
well, and that I only wish you as happily settled in a house at Bath
as I am in London? Holroyd admires Brook Street, but not the side
where his father lives.[184] The opposite side has a fine prospect
from the back rooms.
Adieu! Dear Madam, and either in long or short letters, believe me,
Ever yours,
E. G.
[184] Isaac Holroyd, who, by his wife, Dorothy Baker, was the
father of John Baker Holroyd, lived at Bath, where he died in
May, 1778. With him lived his only surviving daughter, Sarah
Martha Holroyd, who died unmarried, some years later, at Bath.
She translated, says Miss Burney, from the French version
a German work, in four thick volumes--Sturm's _Religious
Meditations and Observations for every Day in the Year_. Both Mr.
and Miss Holroyd are frequently mentioned in the letters.
166.
_To his Stepmother._
London, March 25th, 1773.