Treat via Alston, Hampshire May, 1776 Dearest Mary, your letter offering your condolences on the loss Julian and I recently suffered had me shedding a tear. You are right, of course, and we do count our blessings in having four happy, healthy children. I suppose it was doubly sad that it happened when it did, because it is my first miscarriage, and also because the news of a new baby lifted everyone’s spirits, which as you know have been very low since M’sieur le Duc’s passing two years ago. That sad event is as if it happened yesterday, and Julian has moments where he is walking about in a fog of grief. Thank God for the children, who keep him—no, both of us—grounded and occupied, and stop us from descending into a blue melancholy such as that suffered by his mother. We are determined to be as happy as we can be, for them, and they keep us looking forward not backwards. Little Juliana was only just born, as you remember, and not a month old when M’sieur le Duc died.
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