Michael Turner letter to John Hatley Norton, 1773 February 15

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Dear Sir

Its with pleasure I read in My Wifes Letter from You
that You have recoverd Your Health, which You impute
to a long Journey, and the use of Medicinall Waters.
Health is worth purchasing at any Rate, but when
obtained by a Journey, & the Use of Medicinall Waters,
mutch more agreable, then, by a Load of Physick, &
like to be more durable. I make no doubt but the length
of the Journey, the Exercise, and the Continual change
of Air in such a Journey, were as beneficial as the Waters
The Discription You give of M^rs. Norton's Person, and Mind,
give great Room, to conclude You have made a Happy
Choice, A Young Gentleman of Your Understanding, and
Good Nature, being United with such a Lady, endued
with Her good Qualitys, cannot fail of proveing Happy.

I wrote You two Letters last Year, to congratulate You on
Your Marriage, as I doe not keep Copys of these Letters
cannot tell the Dates of them, but presume they were
not come to Hand, when You wrote to My Wife, as You
make no Mention of either of them.

Permitt Me Sir to wish You and M^rs. Norton Health, and
Happiness, attended with all the Blessings a Married
life is capable of, and believe Me to be -

Dear Sir
Your Ever Well Wisher
Michael Turner

Putney Feb^ry. 15^th 1773

To M^r Hatley Norton

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London 15^th Feb.^y 1773
Michael Turner
Rec'd June 1773.
Answer'd.