Macbride, John David

To Lady Olivia Sparrow, 29 October 1822

The ’s ‘Charge’^* must have delighted you. It is a kind of Vademecum for Clergymen. I have seen him [tear] I quitted my bed and his new born infant whom he calls his Duodecimo.^* I have also had in my sick room lately, , , the learned Dr. Macbride^* with many other distant friends whom I never thought to see in this world.