In these letters from Juliana, Dowager Countess of Burlington to her daughter-in-law Dorothy, Lady Burlington she writes concerning: mourning dress for the death of Lady Clifford; an account of the fit suffered in the night by Lady Dorothy; Lady Burlington's lame hand; a report on the health of Lady Burlington's daughters at Chiswick, whilst their parents are in Bath; Lady Charlotte's ill health and remedies for jaundice; death of Lord Beauchamp in Padua (the same place the Duke of Somerset was shot); wishes to Lord Burlington and "Jewel";
Lady Burlington's toothache; gifts of pigs and pineapples; weather; messages passed on to Mr Kent; news from town.