George--in 1829--had asked his brother as to joining him in Mexico.

'If the country is soon settled I shall say "yes,"' John answers.

With equal wisdom he says to his brother, 'Do not enter the army; it is a bad spec.' In this same year, 1829, John writes to ask whether his mother and brother are 'still living in that windy house of old King's; it gives me the rheumatism to think of it.' In 1830 he writes to his mother that he wishes his brother were making money.

'Neither he nor I have any luck, he works hard and remains poor.' In February of 1831 John writes to George suggesting that he should endeavour to procure a commission in the regiment, and in July of the same year to try the law again: I am convinced that your want of success in life is more owing to your being unlike other people than to any other cause.
John, as we have seen, died in Mexico of fever.

George was at St.
Petersburg working for the Bible Society when his mother writes from Norwich to tell him the news.