Dundas, Isabella (1747?-1823) to James Dundas
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02549.39 Author/Creator: Dundas, Isabella (1747?-1823) Place Written: Richmond (London), England Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 15 February 1788 Pagination: 2 p. : address : docket ; 23 x 18.5 cm. Order a Copy
Updates James again on the medical condition of their friends who were the victims of a fire, writing about the grim prospects of several people, particularly Bessy (see GLC02546.35). Explains that she is writing on behalf of her husband who could "say nothing but what adds pain to his mind." The scenes she describes "numb the Soul by the accumulation of misery."
Isabella Dundas, daughter of William Robertson of Richmond, married David Dundas, a doctor who was appointed Sargent Surgeon to King George III in 1791, in 1774.
James Dundas was a lawyer in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Isabella's brother-in-law.
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