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At length my household seems to have resumed its natural order, – after ten weeks of that
dislocation which the sickness of a mistress occasions. Edith
is convalescent, tho not well, & Cuthbert has
no other ailments than such as are trivial at his age. We intend to get him to church on Wednesday, if things
continue as they are & the weather should permit.
I fear you will have left Worting before I can reach the south. This I shall be sorry for, for I
should rather have found you there than at Streatham, Streatham
being so near London, as to occasion great consumption of time & shoe-leather upon the intermediate road. Rickman will tell you how regular the transmission has been of
copy & proof sheets during your absence, – & still I am far from the end. This last chapter,by during the Regency, – after Coutinhos
book, & probably not long after it.
What kind of book will Lord John Russel make of his ancestors life?an
xx a sketch of the intellectual, domestic & moral or immoral history of those times, for the Q R. which
I was led to think of in reviewing Evelyn,xxx
upon night upon the Acta Sanctorumjudgement & impartial judgement
upon the party-questions of Charles 2ds days.omne scibileterra cognita of human knowledge as
the Baffinsbay-men with their miserable country;– who fancied that they had the whole world to themselves.
Tom says that having become a tribe, like
Abram,xxx except the cow-part of the establishment who are transported to scantier pasture than
they had been used to. His house is much like a Portugueze one, – two floors, & both entered from the ground.
It is just four miles from me, – & nothing can be more beautiful than the walk, the whole way.
Love to my Aunt –