Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to [William Johnson] Temple, 1789 Feb. 16.

Informing him that his wife is suffering from "a return of her asthmatic fever"; noting that he is very uneasy because he is far away from her and she is in "uncertain" health; commenting on his sons' progress; telling him that he is almost done with a draft of his Life of Johnson; writing, "I wish to keep hovering as an English lawyer, for I much, much fear that now I should be more unhappy than ever in Scotland"; annoucing the publication of "Warburton's Juvenile Translations and Discourse on Prodigies" [Tracts of Warburton and a Warburtonian], collected and published by "the celebrated Dr. [Samuel] Parr of Norwich," and "Bishop Hurd's attacks on [John] Jortin and Dr. Thomas Leland with his 'Essay on the Delicacy of Friendship'"; promising to send the sheets over time as they "will require ten franks, which would be too many at a time"; discussing George III's health and the political situation in Great Britain.