{"value"=>"<p>Letters through 1812 are to his friend Joseph Hall. In these, the most personally revealing of his letters, he ponders his own character, his future and his attitudes toward women. The next stage of correspondence is largely to him from notable political figures of the day including Lord Bentinck, George Canning and Lord Stanhope and the secretaries of Robert Peel, Benjamin Disraeli and the Duke of Wellington. These letters reveal Burgess' success in becoming a noticed inventor, economist and financial editor in London. After c.1840, more of the correspondence is outgoing, much of it to his son George in the United States, with whom he seemed to have several disagreements. Revealing letters are also to his wife in Brighton and to his other sons.</p>"}