From Sir Edward Walpole in Wimpole Street, London, to Chesterfield Street. Concern for Charles's poor health prevents Walpole from saying more at present other than he would certainly prefer hearing the concertos at Charles's home than in Wimpole Street. As he will then be able to hear the two organs performed together by Charles Wesley junior and his brother Samuel. Walpole has no doubt that despite his 'habitual indolence, spleen and reclusiveness...I shall when the warm weather returns wait on you; giving you two or three days notice for collecting your performers.
The knowledge of your son Charles's kind intention of dedicating his concertos to me, gives me much greater satisfaction than the doing it: for it is a sort of thing that allways puts both the addressor and the addressed to some difficulty if they are reasonable and sensible men'.
He is reminded that [Giacobbe Basevi] Cervetto dedicated his solos to Walpole so that he might have a chance to give his opinion in public of the Pentachord, which induced Cervetto to rather overstate Walpole's musical ability. Nevertheless for the sake of the Pentachord, Walpole tolerated it as best as he could. He knows Cervetto to be a good man and that he had been deceived by Walpole's slight musical efforts into believing that Walpole is more talented than is the case.
Returning to the subject of Charles's health. Walpole would be obliged to have Charles junior call on him one morning after tomorrow about eleven or twelve for fifteen minutes or so, just to keep Walpole abreast of Charles's condition.
In a postscript he asks that 'Mr Wesley' [?Charles junior] come over in his morning dress without ceremony.