| Description | Letter to Colonel John Gordon of Cluny from Dr. John Taylor, London, regarding Bernard Burke's search for Macaulay's book, hoping that Colonel Gordon has not suffered from his journey, wishing him happy Christmas and regretting that Christmas is now a season 'of mere indulgense of sensuality', reflection that all those doctors who treated him are dead, looking forward to his visit to Cluny (with transcription), 18 December 1836 |