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British Library, Add MS 30928. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I have been waiting some time to get a ten pound Bank of England Bill, – & this not being the Laking season the
article is a scarce one. To day however Jansonxx will take the other half with me to be
sent from thence as soon as I hear this has reachd you.
The box arrived about a month ago, not safe – I am sorry to say. For want of a cord it had entirely fallen to pieces, –
some of the books came xx up loose in the cart, & some I believe have been lost upon the way. Those which have arrived
are the Hist. of the Counts of Thoulouse.
If any have been lost I am afraid their value can not be recovered from the carrier, because the box was not properly
secured, being far too slight to carry any weight, without a cord. The letterings answer so well that xx x xxxx you must not
be surprised to receive a second packet of labels for the same purpose.
When you mentiond in a former letter that your spirits were greatly depressed by an expected misfortune which you could
not then explain, I was of course anxious to guess what it could be, & soon divined xxx what xxx proved to be
the true cause. I was led to this supposition because it evidently did not relate to your own concerns, & as evidently to the
worldly concerns of some person with whom you were very intimate. But I was not the less grieved at finding this opinion verified.
You have I hope received my Brazilby <in>
the course of next month.
God bless you. I shall write from Durham with the remaining half note. Tom goes with us. All well, – but xx cold weather is just come back again after extraordinary heat.