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British Library, Add MS 30928. Not previously published.
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I have been waiting any time this last eight days to write to you, in expectation that poor unfortunate Mark Anthony,
who is no sooner out of one scrape about the fair sex than he runs his head into another, should make his appearance; but where this
unlucky hero of All-for-Love, or a Clerkship well Lost, may be, he knows best, for we have neither seen nor heard any of him since I
wrote to say he would be welcome.
The box was long upon the road, & most exceedingly pleased I am with its contents. Pray present my very sincere
thanks to Robert Hancockxxx made me look like a gentleman of fashion out of humour.xxxx & chuse one. We think of an expedition there when the spring comes on, for the sake of
looking in the neighbourhood for sea-bathing, – & open a communication with which may supply me with various articles
not to be obtained at Keswick.
You have learnt from the newspapers that Coleridges
tragedyxxx xxx use of the opening
which he has gained & exert himself in this which is the most lucrative of all modes of writing & to him one of the easiest.
This is very desirable, & I who as you know am not prone to be sanguine in my expectations from Coleridge think it by no means unlikely.
Well might you speak of the ill-printing of the Omniana.out into the world in so beggarly a manner.
My Life of Nelsonxxxx xxx impediment of its sale. You will probably get it early in March. As far as all mechanical execution goes it will
be a very beautiful book. There will be a good portrait, at least no expense will be spared in procuring one, & plans of the three
great battles, have been furnished me from the Admiralty by Crokers
interference.xxx drawn or driven into it by the review.I have
There will be some original matter in it, & a good deal of impressive xxx narratives. No battles ever did so well upon
paper as Nelsons.
In the last Quarterly I reviewed Landors Play,
Buonaparte’s escape is vexatious.Russian destruction of Moscow has delivered Europe.xx should drink the cup of humiliation to its
xxx dregs before he dies, & nothing can prevent this, unless the Whigs betray this country to as abominable a peace
now, as the Tories did in the days of Marlborough.xxx was known in
France.
We are going on well & our weather is delightful. The Senhora is as you may suppose a great acquisition to us. – Which is become of Sam Reid? Remember me to Rex & believe me dear Charles