“I was truly concerned to hear of your severe
accident, and I hope that you will be soon a convalescent. I sent a copy of our
Address to Colonel Fitzclarence,
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and received yesterday evening an answer from him, which
I shall lay hefore a meeting of the Council on Monday. With best wishes for
your perfect recovery,
Thomas Burgess, bishop of Salisbury (1756-1837)
Educated at Winchester and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he was domestic chaplain to
Shute Barrington, bishop of St. David's (1803) and Bishop of Salisbury (1825).