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It is very long since I have heard from you, – & now I should be <more> than usually glad to receive a letter, in
the hope of hearing that Edward was is thoroughly recovered.
Harry when he informed me of the event in his own family,
My household is very much reduced. Edith May, with
her cousin Sara & Mrs Coleridge have been at Wordsworths for
the last week, & will remain there about a week longer. – I thought myself as secure from all interruption during the winter, as a
bear in his den, retired upon his paws: – but yesterday came a letter from Dr Bell to say he should be here this week. I am always glad to see him, – but if he had come during the
idle season, it would have suited better with my inclination & convenience.
I shall send you the conclusion of the current Chapter in a day or two.r Walpoles papers have been of considerable
use, especially the extracts from his predecessors dispatches
I have been endeavoring in vain to find when Gomes Freyre (of the Treaty)Relaçam Abbreviada
was published.Relaçam. Unluckily none of these
genealogical books are of so late a date, – nor is his name among your MSS additions to the Grandes de Portugal.
The worst of all these lives of Pombal is certainly the French one,re – has lately published a life of Pombal,
with those of Alberoni & Ripperda,how upon how scanty a
stock he set up. At present I have nothing to do with his general administration, & shall leave the general question concerning the
Jesuits for the history of Portugal,
Coxe intended to write the history of King José.
We have had no snow in the valley yet, & altho the mountain tops have twice or thrice been powdered, the snow has
never remained there four & twenty hours. The general temperature has been as mild as fine spring weather so that I have not yet
taken to my flannel drawers. Your fogs are things of which we know nothing, this house has not been enveloped in one three times during
the fifteen years that I have resided in it. – Love to my Aunt & the
boys,