1805.
Having spoken of worldly affairs, let me again mention my beloved brother.

It is now just five years since, after a separation of fourteen years (I may call it a separation, for we only saw him four or five times, and by glimpses), he came to visit his sister and me in this cottage, and passed eight blessed months with us.

He was then waiting for the command of the ship to which he was appointed when he quitted us.

As you will have seen, we had little to live upon, and he as little (Lord Lonsdale being then alive).

But he encouraged me to persist, and to keep my eye steady on its object.