Elizabeth Montagu to James Beattie from Sandleford Eye problem prevents her keeping up correspondence with absent friends. Sishop of Salisbury has giving living to Alison in Wiltshire, about twenty-five miles from Sandleford, but the Alisons refused an additional offer from Mrs Montagu of a house and £60 a year. Reference to Beattie's niece, and Mrs Arbuthnot's health and annuity. Thanks her godson for pretty letter, written in characters that might do honour to a Secreteray of State. Terrible proceedings of French democrats 2 October 1792