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" I shall be very glad when I hear for certain that 

 you are relieved. Living at Howick I should really 

 have thought a security against such a visitation, and 

 I am willing to hope it will be less severe on that 

 account. 



" Pray give nay best remembrances to Lady Grey, 

 and believe me ever most sincerely yours, 



" H. BROUGHAM." 



FKOM LORD GEEY. 



" HOWICK, September 26, 1813. 



" MY DEAR BROUGHAM, I am most truly obliged to 

 you for the kind anxiety you express about me. I 

 have indeed had a great alarm from the breaking-out 

 of the scarlet fever. Two only of the younger boys 

 and two or three of the servants have had it decidedly. 

 One or two of the other children had all the incipient 

 symptoms of sore throat, &c., but the early use of an 

 emetic either checked the disorder or entirely pre- 

 vented it, as they recovered without fever or any other 

 inconvenience. One of the boys was handled severely, 

 and, though the disorder itself is over, does not recover 

 as he ought to do, and still has a nasty fever hanging 

 about him. In general the character of the disease has 

 been very mild. It has been, and still is, very preva- 

 lent in the neighbourhood, but only one person has 

 died of it a woman, who would not be persuaded that 

 it was not the itch, and, in spite of all that could be 

 said to her, rubbed herself with a mercurial, ointment, 

 which finished her in a very few hours. 



" Upon the first appearance of this infection I re- 

 moved Lady Grey and the girls to Falloden, and the 

 boys to Mr Anderson's, staying here myself to watch 



