Great Fire letter

In this letter Robert Flatman is writing to his brother Thomas, a poet and painter of miniatures, about the Great Fire of London. At the time of the fire Thomas was working as a barrister at the Inner Temple but seems to have been out of town (most lawyers were still away on their summer vacation when the fire struck). Robert writes 'I am not able to express without horror the great progress of the fire' and then says 'your Chamber in the Temple is down, but your books are safe'. Many such letters must have been written to anxious loved ones during or after the fire. Samuel Pepys and Samuel Rolle both mention in their writings that all conversations after the fire were dominated by enquiries about friends' whereabouts and comparisons of losses suffered.