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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, WC 183. ALS; 3p. . Not previously published.
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You probably know what my Scotch movementsm Heathcote accordingly, so
that he may take this place either in his way out, or home. He shall have a hearty welcome, & I would house him
if he were coming alone; – but neither he nor his fellow traveller
The life of Wesleyit will be too the general tenour of the book will be too devout, –
for the evangelicals it will be too rational. However it will excite some curiosity & some talk; – & tho I
have no expectation that it will pay me as well as half the quantity of matter would have done in Murraylemagnes Review, – the time has been much worthily employed, – & I
shall be satisfied with 3 or 400 £ for my labour. The sixth sheet of the second volume is now on my desk. It will
be finished in a few weeks after my return from Scotland.
Before I set out I shall finish a paper upon the Monastic Orders
If Mr Croft
Tom has lost a cow, – & before half his
hay is in a deluge is come upon us – it has been raining from an early hour on Sunday morning till this time – (two
o clock, Tuesday) & tho the glass is rising, the sky looks as if it would rain all the rest of the day. We are
going to dine at Leathes–Water, six miles off.
– But I must go & dress, – or the chaise will be here. Love to my Aunt & the boys
We are going on tolerably well. The young one thrives wonderfully