Volume 1, Letter 27: From Clara

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​​‌​​‌​​‌⁠I have been lately so distracted with care and grief, that it is with much difficulty I have been able to summon sufficient strength for writing. Your misfortunes and mine are now at their utmost crisis. In short, the lovely Eloisa is very dangerously ill, and ere this can reach you, may perhaps be no more. The mortification she underwent in parting with you, first brought on her disorder, which w