From [Henrietta] Fordyce in Bath, Somerset, to Sally Wesley as carried by Lady Isabella Turner. Her delay in answering Sally's last letter must be attributed to lack of vigour caused by old age.
Sally's narrative of the Wesley family does her honour. Her style is sober and dignified. Comparisons can be made with Hume's History of England, and Eustice's History of Rome.
Fordyce thanks Sally's mother for the volume, which she read with great pleasure, and Charles junior for the sheets of music. He may be interested to hear about Fordyce's twenty year old cousin, whose playing of the piano is masterly. The young man was introduced to society in Bath by several 'titled men of fashion', and received so many invitations to balls and parties that his father had to take him back to London away from this 'land of dissipation'.
Lady Isabella Turner called in the company of a lady (the former Miss Wakefield), who is now a grandmother and was just four years old when Fordyce saw her last.