[117 — To his Mother]
8, St. James's Street, March 6, 1809.
Dear Mother, —
last letter was written under great depression of spirits from poor Falkland's death
, who has left without a shilling four children and his wife. I have been endeavouring to assist them, which, God knows, I cannot do as I could wish, for my own embarrassments and the many claims upon me from other quarters.
What you say is all very true: come what may,