(They don’t write them like this any more…)
“Notwithstanding the extreme salubrity of
the atmosphere with which in this justly celebrated locality she is surrounded,
and I trust I may venture to add the unremitting attention she has experienced
both at my own hands and those of my medical and educational assistants, her
general health is still, I regret to say, very far from having attained to that
condition of entire convalescence at which I trust she may yet, with the
advantage of a prolonged residence upon the Heath, before very long arrive.”
Charles Warren Adams (Charles Felix), The Notting Hill Mystery, book first
published in 1865; p.32.
(The Heath is Hampstead, and the character
writing is the proprietrix of a school there.)
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