During my recovery I wrote that melancholy review of my past life, which is printed in the ‘Annals.’
CHAPTER IX
PATRIOTIC PROPOSALS—1791-92
Illness—Correspondence with Washington—The King’s gift of a ram—Anecdotes—Revising MSS.—Patriotic proposals—Death of the Earl of Orford—Agricultural schemes—Correspondence.
The year opened with a continuation of that severe illness which had confined me for some months. The following notes are from a journal I kept at that time:—
This year my daughter Elizabeth married the Rev. Samuel Hoole, son of the celebrated John Hoole, translator of Tasso and Ariosto. He is a very sensible, moral man of strict integrity, and always behaved to my daughter with much tenderness.
This same year my correspondence[[139]] opened with General Washington. Having been applied to to procure some implements for his husbandry, I wrote to him offering to procure any article in that line which he might have occasion for, and accordingly afterwards sent him many, amongst others the plan of a barn, which he executed, and is represented by a plate in the ‘Annals of Agriculture.’