Samuel Palmer Sr., London, to Samuel Palmer, Jr., attached to a letter from John Linnell to Samuel Palmer in Italy, 21 February 1838. 

Dear Samuel,

         I have terminated my school and am lodging at your house having made a loving arrangement with my brother. Mrs Linnell is waiting for this letter, past 9 o’Clock, therefore I must be short. I am almost well after a few weeks illness. I wish there may be more lodgers in your house shortly. I rejoice to hear that Mra P. and you are well and that processions etc. do not draw you aside from the great object which influenced you to leave England. May you and your dear wife enjoy health and happiness and realize all that is desirable. W. and M.P. send their best love. I remain Dear Samuel your affectionate Father Samuel Palmer. My warmest Love to your wife and kind remembrance to Mr and Mra Richmond.

Text: Linnell Archive, MS 38-2000, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; see also Raymond Lister, Letters, vol. 1, p. 110, n. 11. The “M. P.” is Mary Palmer, William Palmer’s wife; it is not, as Lister suggests, Samuel Palmer, Sr.’s, sister, also named Mary Palmer, who never married and at the time of the above letter was living at Margate with some of her relations among the Giles family who side derived from Samuel Palmer, Sr.s, long-deceased wife, Martha Giles.