I am condemned to some weeks recumbency, lying like patience on a monument smiling on a broken knee-pan. I had the accident this day s[...] sevenight; but am calm, resigned & in most equal & good spirits. The pan, split in two, has been most skilfully reduced; & I have every prospect of a good good cure, but from the nature of the case, not a speedy recovery. I retain my ardour for our amusements & [...] employ my secretary fully & am swelling the arctic zoology to 4 M.S. volumes. may you & the Ladies¹ retain equal spirits in better health. The same wish attends M^r Storer.

Be so good as to give my son the sketch of the Lady’s head I sent to you.² He may get it, ascertaind, at I write on a portfolio on my sane knee. as the attitude is not very pleasing excuse more at present.