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Excerpt from The Life of Charles James Mathews, Chiefly Autobiographical, Vol. 2: With Selections From His Correspondence and Speeches
Three weeks afterwards he wrote I have not wished to let you know anything about it, as it was expected to prove the small-pox every day. However, there is no danger of that now, and I am almost well and it was not until his complete convalescence that the full truth was told. NO permanent ill effects followed the disorder, but it was long before the anxious mother could be persuaded that all was well.
In Florence Mathews now stayed for some months, enjoying perhaps the happiest time he had ever yet spent. The beautiful city on the Arno was at that period the resort of many English families Of distinction.
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