“Dear Mrs. Maginn” (he writes), “I have been with Mr. Clarke, and am very happy to find that it is not necessary, in order to attain our immediate object—the Doctor’s liberation—that I should put into the solicitor’s hands a further sum of £50, which had been provided with a view to that result. I am therefore enabled to leave the £50 at your own disposal, and I don’t doubt it will be agreeable to you to have it in reserve in case of any little difficulty arising before Dr. M. has got settled down once more into a regular course of life and industry.
“I don’t doubt that most industrious his life will be, when he has once recovered from his recent sufferings in mind and in body. But you must not let him overwork himself at the first, and perhaps this £50 may help you in your efforts to keep him easy, as well as steady.—Ever sincerely yours,
