Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, to R. W. Elliston, 1799 July 28.

Writing about loans and allowances: "I should probably not have neglected to suggest to you, that your Father's annual allowance might have been deducted from the £50: for if I rightly recollect, my last remittance on his acct extended no further than midsummer last. As it is, I can only say, that whenever you write for it, I shall be ready to send it"; congratulating him on the success of his Bristol benefit; commenting on his nephew's hectic travel schedule: "I cannot easily reconcile myself to your vibrating with so much rapidity between such distant places as Bath & Windsor [...] However well travelling may agree with you, and little as you may regard the fatigue at present, I am confident that a repetition of what may be called night-errantry had better be avoided"; sending good wishes for Elliston's appearance before King George III; addressing Elizabeth Rundall Elliston directly and writing "pray tell him [...] that it is the duty of a Husband & a Father to avoid all unnecessary [rigor] and yt he is no longer in the predicament of isolated individuals, who have all liberty to pursue their own devices, and have no amiable consorts, no endearing pledges to restrain them from any perilous embarassing adventures."