Leigh Hunt letter to Marianne Hunt, May 18, 1813

              Surrey Jail, 18th. May 1813.  
My dearest love,  
I have little to tell you today except that I believe I have got over one of the most violent fits of bile that I have lately had. It came upon me yesterday evening, seemingly at the close of my fever, and by this evening it seems to have left me, though without diminishing that unpleasant, full sensation about the head and ears, of which I spoke to you. I was the more anxious to write to you, from not having a letter from yourself today, in order that you might see I retained no improper feeling of what has past.-We have had very violent winds here for these two or three days /---/:-they subsided yesterday evening in a hard set in of rain which lasted all night, and nothing but sullen clouds have been sailing over us all the morning. The glass, however, I am told, is [---] rising, so that we may expect some weather, which I think we have pretty well earned by this time. I forgot to thank you for your sketch of the rooms, which seem very comfortable,-but your fireside gave me a shake or so, and your bed as many again. For my own part, I try to do as little as I can in the way that I used to do when you were here; I do not care for sitting in the same place,- I write in all parts of  the room, and could even change my side in the bed, if I not somewhat too great an affection for that. Pray didn't I say in