He apparently wished for a personal interview with Defoe.

In the beginning of the present letter Defoe had said that, though far from debarring a visit from his son-in-law, circumstances, much to his sorrow, made it impossible that he could receive a visit from anybody.

After the charge against his son, which we have quoted, he goes on to explain that it is impossible for him to go to see Mr.Baker.His family apparently had been ignorant of his movements for some time.

"I am at a distance from London, in Kent; nor have I a lodging in London, nor have I been at that place in the Old Bailey since I wrote you I was removed from it.

At present I am weak, having had some fits of a fever that have left me low." He suggests, indeed, a plan by which he might see his son-in-law and daughter.