I am extremely
concerned, my dearest friend, for the disturbance that have happened in your
family. I know how it must hurt you to become the subject of the public talk:
and yet, upon an occasion so generally known, it is impossible but that
whatever relates to a young lady, whose distinguished merits have made her the
public care, should engage every body's attention. I long to have the
particulars from yourself; and of the usage I am told you receive upon an
accident you could not help; and in which, as far as I can learn, the sufferer
was the aggressor.
Mr. Diggs, the
surgeon, whom I sent for at the first hearing of the rencounter, to inquire, for your sake, how your brother was, told
me, that there was no danger from the wound, if there were none from the fever;
which it seems has been increased by the perturbation of his spirits.
Mr. Wyerley
drank tea with us yesterday; and though he is far from being partial to Mr.
Lovelace, as it may well be supposed, yet both he and Mr. Symmes blame your
family for the treatment they gave him when he went in person to inquire after
your brother's health, and to express his concern for what had happened.