I should have wrote you long before <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />this, but having been at my Country Residence till within <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />these few weeks, and having since my arrival in Town experienced <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />a severe attack of fever, <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <sic>occassioned</sic> <corr cert="high">occasioned</corr> </choice> by catching cold, has prevented <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />me from having that pleasure.