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The box did not arrive till yesterday afternoon, – a shameful delay, for in the regular course of things a package by
waggon reaches me in ten days. However it is safe, & Taborda
I am as much in the dark about the RegisterCertainly The copy which I saw at
Llangedwin was certainly a strong symptom of publication, – & yet the Times of yesterday advertises it as not yet ready. If this be
not the careless repetition of an old advertisement there has been something going on in the way of suppression or alteration of which
I know nothing. My own copy has not yet been sent, this however I can account for, because John Ballantyne, the bookseller, from whom it should be sent, is at this time in
London.
The state of my concern respecting this book is that John
Ballantyne takes my whole share of the impression, the original capital goes on from volume to volume, & I receive the net
profits. Copies therefore of this are not at my disposal, like those of my own books. If the book be fairly afloat & you & Mr
Witherxxx act towards you in a manner which could be construed by me into an offence. – The way in which you
speak of John Mays failing to meet you at Richmond gives me a good deal of pain,
because I know how very highly he respects you. I only hope his business may not have been of an unpleasant
nature; – for when I was with him he was xxxxxxx much perplexed about an affair of considerable importance in which that
rascal D Domingos
My Aunt’s direction is Bishops Xxxx Hull, Taunton. A line from you will
be better than from me, because she will feel it as a more direct kindness. I expect soon to hear from Turner upon this business.the corner of x a corner house in the
middle of the side farthest from Holborn. I should like you to call on him, when you are in that neighbourhood, that you might see his
wife, who is a great favourite of mine, – a woman quite worthy of so excellent a man.
Have you see the Portugueze Magazine set up (as I suppose) in opposition to the Correio?
Harry is bent upon starting in London, but not till he has means of
subsisting two years without calculating upon a single fee. This he expects to have as soon as his law-suit is concluded.& his notions of what is & according to his estimate of the good things of the world, he is right in playing
for a high stake, & I have little doubt of his success. Whether he will be a happier man for succeeding is a very different
question. Tom begins to talk of wanting a ship when the winter is over. As Herries is returning from Ireland I may possibly be able to do something thro
the same channel as before.
I am busy upon Bell & Lancaster, the blow will be a hard one, Brougham will come in for some home thrusts, for a most false & slanderous article
in the Edinburgh.