Autograph letter signed : [London?], to Lady Bath, [1794?].

Apologizing and explaining, at length and in great detail, several incidents at parties and on his visits to her at Bath House which "incurred your displeasure, yet I cannot think that this alone can have excited to a degree so distressing to me, & when you have read my letter with the candor I am confident I shall find with you I think you will admit that there is no other circumstance which can give a colour of suspicion to my truth, regard & affection;" saying that he believes she has been "deceived to a degree which cannot but strongly excite my indignation against those who whether from Folly or malevolence have been the means of deceiving you;" denying that he was a party of any gossip about her; concluding "Lady Bath, my fate is in your hands, since you indulged me in the hope of passing my days with you. I have looked up to you as the only Source of real happiness for me in this life. The Footing upon which I have lately had the satisfaction to live with you has afforded me every day fresh reason to rejoice in the prospect which lay before me. I could prove this if it were necessary by letters certainly never meant for your inspection - I say nothing more nor shall I trouble you at present with any other request than that which I have already made for a deliberate perusal & consideration of this letter;" telling her, in a postscript, that she will answer any questions she may wish to ask.