Mr Adorn's premises, Wine Street, Bristol

To Lady Olivia Sparrow, December 29 1812

The stings of my conscience get the better of all impediments to writing, and while I am constantly eating you at breakfast, and drinking you at dinner I can no longer rest under the load of ingratitude of not cordially thanking you for the affectionate interest you take in my health by your kind present of Arrow Root^* – I must just observe by the way that it would have been more speedy as well as safe had both been directed to me at Mr. Adorns’s Wine Street Bristol.