Letter from Joseph Pease, Carlisle, Cumberland, to Edward Pease, marked ‘for Henry’, referring to letters received from his mother and John; to Henry’s illness; to the writer’s proposal to spend some time with relations in Kendal Westmorland; to the fact that Henry’s friend, Edward White, was in Glasgow Scotland, spending some time at home before opening a new shop in Princes Street in the New Town in Edinburgh Scotland; describing how the ‘spirit of magnificence & display is still exerting itself to render a fine city Edinburgh still more imposing & grand’, and how, in Glasgow, ‘the population & throng of inhabitants is very striking, it was reported by a Committee of the Synod of the Kirk of Scotland that there were 30,000 Highlanders in Glasgow who could not understand a sermon in English, I understand that there is but accommodation for 2000 in those Churches where the Gaelic language is preached & it was resolved to build one or two more Churches for their particular advantage. There has been a very great stir & some serious mobs in Glasgow owing to the Doctors making too free with the sepulchres of the dead and in consequence the profession has fallen under the general odium of the poor and the medical men sometimes in going about their business have run considerable risk of being maltreated’; describing his being accompanied by a French man, his wife, and daughter of 12 years, from Dumfries Scotland to Carlisle, with whom he conversed in French; sending his love to uncle, aunt and cousins at Feethams, and to J. Coates, 16 April 1823 – From: Quaker families of Darlington,Pease family, Henry Pease (1807 – 1881), Correspondence