Letter from David Wilkie, Hampstead, to Sir George Beaumont, 1810 October 25 : autograph manuscript signed.

Discussing his plans to visit Sir George; thanking him for his offer to come to London to accompany him to Dunmow but saying he is sufficiently recovered to be able to take the journey alone; adding that Dr. Baillie told him his health does not require him to go to Madeira for the winter, "...or even very far from London - he recommends me however to be out of London, and to take a lodging for the winter in the neighbourhood of Brompton, where I may exercise myself moderately at the painting, and amongst a number of other injunctions which I shall most strictly adhere to, he has no objection to my taking the air of Dunmow in the mean time as a further restorative;" saying the Baillie sisters will return in a week and reporting that he had just received a letter from Joanna Baillie "...in which she congratulates me on the agreeable hours I shall spend in your family. I have been studying her writings lately with very great attention and cannot help considering them as very wonderful productions; it even adds to my admiration to see such uncommon talents, and unassuming manners, existing in the same person;" adding that he looks forward to being at Dunmow and to meeting his mother.