The Life and Correspondence of Henry Salt Consul General in Egypt (2)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...and his wife, who all doat on the dear child: that she will be taken care of I have sufficient proof in the education of my beloved wife, who never left her mother. You will have heard of the recent shock I have had in the death of my friend Mr. Peter Lee, Consul in Alexandria, after only ten days' illness, leaving a wife and children with little or nothing to live upon: I have before recommended them to your kind offices, if they should have need of them. It has seldom happened to any one to see together two such happy families as ours were, as far as depended on domestic harmony, and both to be thus broken up!--Patience! patience! I am now in possession of the Alexandrian Consulate till a successor shall be named, and find it by no means an agreeable post, the duties being more like those of a Bow-street magistrate than any other Christian office: gales of wind daily, and gales among the seamen and captains--I have no less than seven seamen in prison at this moment. Yours very truly, H. S. P.S. Captain Chapman is here, a lively, pleasant, talkative companion. He will be able, on his return, to give you a pretty correct account of the difficulties attending the export of cotton, as far, at least, as ship-masters are concerned. B. Richards, Esq. FROM THE SAME TO WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESQ. Alexandria, Oct. 4th, 1824. My Dear Sir, J have two letters by me which I had begun for you, but had not the heart to go through with: the blow under which I have suffered having rendered it painful to me to address, above all, those friends who would, I know, feel a kind interest for me in the midst of my misfortunes. Before this time I had hoped to be with you at Naples, and to have had the delight of introducing to you my beloved wife; but God had...