Autograph letter signed : Westport, Ireland, to his mother, 1800 August 20-August 22.

Describing his experiences in Ireland as a guest of Lord Altamont (later Marquess of Sligo), including a trip taken from Dublin to Tullamore and Westport via canal boat and chaise, describing the discomforts of travelling on the road to Westport and Lord Altamont's Westport House, relating some observations on the differing attitudes taken towards the recent rebellion in Ireland as opposed to England, and responding to some questions posed by his mother in a previous letter regarding his physician's directions as to bathing and the clothing he wore on a visit to Frogmore; resuming his letter August 22 with a description of a climb up Croagh Patrick and an account of his making the acquaintance of Miss Blake, a sister of Lady Errol; arguing vehemently against the proposal that he should attend a private school and asking to be allowed to attend the public school at Bath, insisting that the moral standards of the Bath Grammar School are not inferior to that of a private school and stating that the events which lead to his leaving that establishment "might have happened with equal ease at any other place," and referring to the "affair with Mrs. P___" as a single misstep "committed at a time when my brain was certainly disordered and my head injured by the blow I had received."