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British Library, Add MS 47890. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Your news of S. Reid made me so uncomfortable about him that I
could not rest till I had written to him;xxxx mers R. & his sistersxxxxxx xxx fancy this his call, it would take so xx well that funds would not be wanting, for any reasonable
plan which might be devised. The other is a worthier object, & blessed will that man be who shall carry it into effect.
I hope Georges disappointment has been removed ere this. For I
repeated the lost order for his books, as soon as this new edition of Kehama
Unluckily I do not know a single person in Glasgow, or in any part of its vicinity, – nor any person connected with
that part of Scotland from whom I could procure any introduction for David &
Ashburner.
Harrys habitation is 28 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square. He has been very fortunate in finding a small house in so good a situation. – But poor fellow he has been miserably ill since his arrival in town, somewhat in Toms old way, – so as to be in danger of fistula.
Wordsworth has lost another of his children this week. Poor little Tom, the
measles produced an inflammation of the lungs which carried him off in a few hours.good health recovered to temporary health.
If there were any thing like punctuality in carriers the box would be here tomorrow. I am obliged to James
I am about half way thro my poem,xxxxx the son of the cunning
woman from whom he learnt the craft was an amateur in types, & had a better real sense of typographical beauty. Was you
with me on St Augustines Backxxxxx xx printed out the turn of the tail in xx a capital Italic R & said
“that’s sweet!” –