Description | 1. 15 August 1834. Discusses family matters, his wife's illness, his own ill health and diet, and his son Thomas's imprudent but happy marriage to a servant who already had an illegitimate child. 2. 23 July 1836. Discusses his and his wife's poor health, the deaths of many of his neighbours, family matters, and a severe thunderstorm at Kemsing, Kent, in which a mother and baby escaped death when a chimney fell down. 3. 15 September 1836. Reports the death of his wife. |