Letter 0879

[f. 202] 19 Octob. 1703 Honor’d Sir, After what said to you in my last, I believe you will give little eredit to my words, since now so many weeks are past, and I have not as yet paid my respects to you in person, as I ought to have done. And indeed, I am for my own part, asham’d to appear before you. This is as the Cast stands now: but forgetfulness of the great Obligations & Favour you have laid on me, has not been the reason of my Absenting my self since my return from Sr Symonds D’Ewes’s: for I came up not well, and grew worse after: yet the Method you had formerly advised me to use, set me up again. But the night before I intended to have waited on you at your own house, I had a terrible fall, just at out own door, and so bruised the Cap of my Left Knee & my Leg hard by it, that I was unable to set my Leg to the Ground for some days; and tho’ by holding it continually on a Chair, & bathing it with Hungary-water, I grew better, yet I was forced to take Coach (for that Reason) to Sion College on Thursday last. ‘Tis now almost quite well, tho’ I suppose I shall always feel it upon alteration [f. 202v] of Weather. This, Sir, is the plain Truth of the matter, yet I beg pardon for any thing that shall look like Rudenesse or Ingratitutde on my side. I find that I have yet some Draughts, & Drawings, &c belonging to those I made bold to presentyou with before; I thought they had went along with the rest: but since they did not, they shall wait on you with 6 small Indian pictures, which were given to me yesterday morning. I long to see you, Sir, and am glad the Soceitie’s Adjournment is grown to an end: And you shall see, that for the future, as I prefer your instructive conversation to that of any man’s; so, I shall take all the occasions I can of enjoying it; for I am with all the passion in the world Honor’d Sir, Your most obliged & most faithful humble servant H Wanley