I avail myself of the influx of MembersMembers of Parliament
Members of Parliament —lmw occasioned by the Quarter Sessions to thank you for all the kindness of your very feeling letter, & to express once again the strong interest we all take in your welfare. All I trust has gone well with you the last month—& most of all I hope both your strength & your eyes have continued to improve. Firm health & strong sight are indeed almost all that your friends need to ask for you. Such Genius so directed must force its way to fame & fortune.

Your kindness will I know be gratified in hearing that things are looking better with us. A great point has been gained before the Master of the RollsThomas Plumer, Sir | Born: 1753-10-10 in Yorkshire, England. Died: 1824-04-05 in England.
English judge and politician. Plumer served as a Commissioner in bankruptcy and assisted in the defence of both Warren Hastings and Queen Caroline in 1806. He also served as Attorney General and then was appointed as the first Vice Chancellor of England under the reorganization of the British legal system that took place around 1813. He later became Master or Keeper of the Rolls in the Court of Chancery; Mitford mentions him in this role in a letter of 1819 regarding the Mitford family's Chancery suit.—lmw

[1] Thomas Plumer was Master of the Rolls from 6 January 1818 to 5 April 1824. The full title of the position was "Keeper or Master of the Rolls and Records of the Chancery of England," and, as Mitford's letter suggests, in this period his role was judicial as well as clerical.—lmw & though there is no great chance of a ChanceryCourt of Chancery
Court founded in Norman England, adjudicating equity cases with a tradition of leniency. This court had powers to cancel debts in cases of poverty.—ebb Suit's making haste, we page 2
have the comfort of knowing that there is little doubt of our ultimate success within no very unreasonable period. My poor Uncle too is likely soon to be released. It seems as if the magic of your good wishes had had a favorable influence on our destiny, for the Decision of the Master of the RollsThomas Plumer, Sir | Born: 1753-10-10 in Yorkshire, England. Died: 1824-04-05 in England.
English judge and politician. Plumer served as a Commissioner in bankruptcy and assisted in the defence of both Warren Hastings and Queen Caroline in 1806. He also served as Attorney General and then was appointed as the first Vice Chancellor of England under the reorganization of the British legal system that took place around 1813. He later became Master or Keeper of the Rolls in the Court of Chancery; Mitford mentions him in this role in a letter of 1819 regarding the Mitford family's Chancery suit.—lmw

arrived the very day after your kind & inspiriting letter. I cannot sufficiently thank you for your cheering caution against mental depression. My dear Sir it was needless. Amongst the many blessings I enjoy—my Dear FatherGeorge Mitford, Esq., or: George Midford | Born: . Died: .
Father of Mary Rusell Mitford, George Mitford was the son of Francis Midford, surgeon, and Jane Graham. The family name is sometimes recorded as Midford. Immediate family called him by nicknames including Drum, Tod, and Dodo. He was a member of a minor branch of the Mitfords of Mitford Castle in Northumberland. Although later sources would suggest that he was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh medical school, there is no evidence that he obtained a medical degree and he did not generally refer to himself as Dr. Mitford, preferring to style himself Esq.. In 1784, he is listed in a Hampshire directory as surgeon (medicine) of Alresford. His father and grandfather worked as apothecary-surgeons and it seems likely that he served a medical apprenticeship with family members.
He married Mary Russell on October 17, 1785 at New Alresford, Hampshire. On the marriage allegation papers, both gave their addresses as Old Alresford; they later came to live at Broad Street in New Alresford. Their only child to live to adulthood, Mary Russell Mitford, was born two years later on December 16, 1787 at New Alresford, Hampshire. He assisted Mitford's literary career by representing her interests in London and elsewhere with theater owners and publishers. He was active in Whig politics and later served as a local magistrate. He coursed greyhounds with his friend James Webb.
—lmw, my admirable MotherMary Russell Mitford, or: Mrs. Mitford | Born: 1750 in Ashe, Hampshire, England. Died: 1830-01-02 in Three Mile Cross, parish of Shinfield, Berkshire, England.
Mary Russell was the youngest child of the Rev. Dr. Richard Russell and his second wife, Mary Dicker; she was born about 1750 in Ashe, Hampshire. (Her birth date is as yet unverified; period sources indicate that she was ten years older than her husband George, born in 1760.) Through the Russells, she was a distant relation of the Dukes of Bedford (sixth creation, 1694). She had two siblings, Charles William and Frances; both predeceased her and their parents, which resulted in Mary Russell inheriting her family’s entire estate upon her mother’s death in 1785. Her father’s rectory in Ashe was only a short distance from Steventon, and so she was acquainted with the young Jane Austen. She married George Mitford or Midford on October 17, 1785 at New Alresford, Hampshire. On the marriage allegation papers, both gave their addresses as Old Alresford. Their only daughter, Mary Russell Mitford, was born two years later on December 16, 1787 at New Alresford, Hampshire. Mary Russell died on January 2, 1830 at Three Mile Cross in the parish of Shinfield, Berkshire. Her obituary in the 1830 New Monthly Magazine gives New Year’s day as the date of her death.—ajc, lmw
—my tried & excellent friends, there is nothing for which I ought to thank God so earnestly as for the constitutional buoyancy of spirits—the aptness to hope—the will to be happy, which I inherit from my FatherGeorge Mitford, Esq., or: George Midford | Born: . Died: .
Father of Mary Rusell Mitford, George Mitford was the son of Francis Midford, surgeon, and Jane Graham. The family name is sometimes recorded as Midford. Immediate family called him by nicknames including Drum, Tod, and Dodo. He was a member of a minor branch of the Mitfords of Mitford Castle in Northumberland. Although later sources would suggest that he was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh medical school, there is no evidence that he obtained a medical degree and he did not generally refer to himself as Dr. Mitford, preferring to style himself Esq.. In 1784, he is listed in a Hampshire directory as surgeon (medicine) of Alresford. His father and grandfather worked as apothecary-surgeons and it seems likely that he served a medical apprenticeship with family members.
He married Mary Russell on October 17, 1785 at New Alresford, Hampshire. On the marriage allegation papers, both gave their addresses as Old Alresford; they later came to live at Broad Street in New Alresford. Their only child to live to adulthood, Mary Russell Mitford, was born two years later on December 16, 1787 at New Alresford, Hampshire. He assisted Mitford's literary career by representing her interests in London and elsewhere with theater owners and publishers. He was active in Whig politics and later served as a local magistrate. He coursed greyhounds with his friend James Webb.
—lmw.—Yes I agree with you in all you say—I am grateful to misfortune for having shown me how much goodness & kindness exists in the world. They page 3
who have been always prosperous may be misanthropes. They cannot know a tenth part of the excellence of their fellow creatures.

If you should again travel Westward this winter I hope you will continue to give us the pleasure of a visit. You will forgive the deficiencies of this large & dilapidated mansion in favor of the smiling faces & the joyful hearts that will press forward to receive you—There is no one in the whole world whom we should esteem it such an honour to see. My FatherGeorge Mitford, Esq., or: George Midford | Born: . Died: .
Father of Mary Rusell Mitford, George Mitford was the son of Francis Midford, surgeon, and Jane Graham. The family name is sometimes recorded as Midford. Immediate family called him by nicknames including Drum, Tod, and Dodo. He was a member of a minor branch of the Mitfords of Mitford Castle in Northumberland. Although later sources would suggest that he was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh medical school, there is no evidence that he obtained a medical degree and he did not generally refer to himself as Dr. Mitford, preferring to style himself Esq.. In 1784, he is listed in a Hampshire directory as surgeon (medicine) of Alresford. His father and grandfather worked as apothecary-surgeons and it seems likely that he served a medical apprenticeship with family members.
He married Mary Russell on October 17, 1785 at New Alresford, Hampshire. On the marriage allegation papers, both gave their addresses as Old Alresford; they later came to live at Broad Street in New Alresford. Their only child to live to adulthood, Mary Russell Mitford, was born two years later on December 16, 1787 at New Alresford, Hampshire. He assisted Mitford's literary career by representing her interests in London and elsewhere with theater owners and publishers. He was active in Whig politics and later served as a local magistrate. He coursed greyhounds with his friend James Webb.
—lmw will perhaps have the pleasure of calling on you before long—at least I think it probable that he may be in TownLondon, England | London | England | 51.5073509 -0.12775829999998223 Capital city of England and the United Kingdom; one the oldest cities in Western Europe. Major seaport and global trading center at the mouth of the Thames. From 1831 to 1925, the largest city in the world.—lmw soon on his ChanceryCourt of Chancery
Court founded in Norman England, adjudicating equity cases with a tradition of leniency. This court had powers to cancel debts in cases of poverty.—ebb business & I am sure that he will not be there without waiting on you—May I be forgiven for writing to you—I believe the caution is needless—but it is better to tell you that PapaGeorge Mitford, Esq., or: George Midford | Born: . Died: .
Father of Mary Rusell Mitford, George Mitford was the son of Francis Midford, surgeon, and Jane Graham. The family name is sometimes recorded as Midford. Immediate family called him by nicknames including Drum, Tod, and Dodo. He was a member of a minor branch of the Mitfords of Mitford Castle in Northumberland. Although later sources would suggest that he was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh medical school, there is no evidence that he obtained a medical degree and he did not generally refer to himself as Dr. Mitford, preferring to style himself Esq.. In 1784, he is listed in a Hampshire directory as surgeon (medicine) of Alresford. His father and grandfather worked as apothecary-surgeons and it seems likely that he served a medical apprenticeship with family members.
He married Mary Russell on October 17, 1785 at New Alresford, Hampshire. On the marriage allegation papers, both gave their addresses as Old Alresford; they later came to live at Broad Street in New Alresford. Their only child to live to adulthood, Mary Russell Mitford, was born two years later on December 16, 1787 at New Alresford, Hampshire. He assisted Mitford's literary career by representing her interests in London and elsewhere with theater owners and publishers. He was active in Whig politics and later served as a local magistrate. He coursed greyhounds with his friend James Webb.
—lmw does not know the full extent of the communication page 4
I made to you in my last. He told me to tell the truth—but he is not aware of the perfect unreserve—the entire detail into which I entered. There is no man in the universe to whom he would sooner have confided any secret than yourself—but in pecuniary affairs he has a sensitiveness which I can respect though I do not participate. It is the only fault of a proud & liberal mind—a fault that I am sure you will pardon. In telling you this my Dear Sir I make an avowal which touches me far more nearly than any confession of poverty—but I make it from an impulse that I am sure not to repent—& even in consequence of your delicacy, your frank & friendly kindness might lead to some betrayal of the extent of your information. You are yourself so lifted above false pride & false shame that I may be pardoned for suspecting you of forgetting that all the world is not equally generous xx xThe  end conclusion of this letter is missing.