Autograph letter signed : Lowther, to [William Johnson] Temple, 1789 May 22.

Telling him that he found his wife worse than he expected, and the "physician and surgeon apothecary [told him] that they had no hopes of her recovery, though she might linger, they could not say how long, in distress"; adding that she is also suffering from "a most afflicting acidity in her stomach"; expressing remorse for his "frequent scenes of ... dissolute conduct" during her illness; reporting that he is on his way back to London with Lord Lonsdale because he is "engaged to appear as Recorder of Carlisle, for the Corporation, in a Cause brought against [them] in the King's Bench"; adding that he plans to return to Auchinleck with his two sons "to be some comfort" to his wife; complaining that "his Lordship's way is exceedingly dilatory"; estimating that his "chance for representing [his] own County [in Parliament] is very small"; complaining that [William] Pitt has "behaved very ill to" him; writing, "I own I am desirous that my life should tell"; lamenting that his wife is "wasting away before [his] eyes" and remarking that this is "the more distressing" because "she is as sensible as ever, so that we cannot see why this is."