Letter 0591

[fol. 315] Sr Sunday Aug. 10. 1699. I endeavourd a visit to you yesterday & a visit of just Respect. But it was not without another Errand, & what St. Paul would call a greater then that, namely, of Charity. The occasion of it will bee told you from a Neigh- -bour of yours, my extraordinary friend, Mrs. Harrison. I have made some way toward what wee desire, as you will see by a paper that will bee shewen you. What make mee ye more sol- -licitous to you in it, is, that to morrow mor- -ning is likely to determine all wee are to hope for in it; & the whole (I understand) depends upon ye Opinion that shall bee given in ye Case by Dr. Pitts, to whom I am entirely a Stranger, but have him described to mee for a very Good Man, & one therefore that in soe charitable a cause as this is, will not (I hope) bee easily ledd to pronounce ye Case of an indigent Wretch incureable; which is to give her up to perish. The Governours you will see, are disposed already to favour my Request, & I would not despayre but your interposeing in it with Dr. Pitts, would make it successefull; which would (besides its being otherwise a most worthy Act) say an extraor- -dinary Obligation upon. Your most humble Servnt. Pepys The President Sr. Wm. Prichard is not (I am told) in Towne. But should hee bee, & in Court, I have reason to believe, ye use of my Name to him, in such a Cause as this, would finde.