Glasgow the 10th July 1813
My dear Mrs. Teackle
Having just learned that my friend Mr. Jeffery whom Teackle met with in Scotland, the leading person in the Edinburgh Review, has set off to Liverpool to embark on a cartel for America and that if I write in half an hour there is a chance of this letter overtaking him. I embrace the opportunity altho’ I can hardly do more than acknowledge receiving your delightful letter and to tell you that it would not have remained unacknowledged until this time, but from being overpressed with that listlessness which attends a long period of indifferent health until, soon after receiving yours, I left home, and business, and made nearly a three months excursion in England spending the greatest part of my time at Cheltenham, a watery place celebrated for bilious complaints, and which has brought me into a state of as good health as ever, and you will very soon receive my thanks in a much fuller