Letters from his mother

Including:

Lady Fleming's improvements at Rydal Hall - described, 18 Aug. 1829 (dated from Rydal Hall); Diana Fleming is now her companion, having left school - not pleasant for her, do.; Fletcher has never recovered from the shock of his mother's death, do.; a Calgarth suicide - a housemaid drowned herself in the lake, do.; Croft Lodge rebuilt, do.; Dr Simpson has bought Fox How (Loughrigg), to build a house there for summer - hopes to get it enfranchised first, but your Cousin [i.e. Lady Fleming] declines "on account of its being too near Rydall" - many resorting hither, do.; news of Andrew's relations at Thorpe Park near York, do.; "Mrs Howard's Chapel" consecrated near Levens on 18th, do.; Sir Richard Fleming's lapse into bad ways, do.; I visit Eden Hall - details, do.; Lady Fleming "has now given up all Society", 15 Oct. 1829 (dated from Rayrigg); comments on same, do.; visits to Calgarth, Dallam Tower, Levens, Rigmaden Park, and what I found there - Dallam Tower, "so exelent a House erected in so short a time" - do.; Mr Carus Wilson's second son preaches well - heard him at Kirkby Lonsdale, do.; details of the smallpox epidemic in S Westmorland, do.; Mr Marshall and Mr Wordsworth returned from their Tour in Ireland", do.; Mr John Brougham's death, do.; Mr Stanley's christening party for his son - names of the sponsors, do.; Mr Babington has returned, some time ago, and has been in touch, 21 Dec. 1829; the Vanes, Musgraves, your schoolfellow Troutbeck's marriage to Miss Stevenson of Blencow, the Wilsons (Rigmaden), do. (Dallam), Mrs Brougham's erysipelas in her ear, other Broughams, the Askews' servants slipped away over Christmas for a night "to go to a merry meeting as they call it in the Village" (humorous vivid details), but now for the retribution - do.