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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, WC 206. ALS; 4p. . Not previously published.
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It is certainly very remarkable that the passage in Peter Martyr
should have been overlooked.quod vix ac ne vix quidem aliunde comparari posset.xx it puts an end to all doubt. – The truth
is that most historians have contented themselves with referring
to many of their authorities, instead of reading them.
I well know how little credit is due to Edward S. It is scarcely possible that he should not have known the state of his Aunts affairs & the extent of her debts, – so far at least as to be sure that they would only be limited by the impossibility of contracting more. You had not told me the nature of her disease. – Requiescat in pace. The inscription in its shorter form is just what it should be. – Your mind is relieved from what must have been its most painful burthen, & I trust you are now recovered from what you have gone thro.
I shall be anxious till I hear that Georgiana & my namesake are well
thro the most formidable of all those diseases which the want of a medical police has
entailed upon every one. – With regard to the Quarantine laws, I believe they are
ridiculously inefficient, & stand greatly in need of revisal, but our wiseacres
were disposed to listen to a preposterous theory that the plague is not infectious! I
dined once in company with the great champion of this most absurd & most perilous
notion, – a certain Dr Adams,
The natural consequence of the Catholic questionLiberal one (which is pretty much the same thing) will
very gladly take advantage of such a Committee to do with the Tythes what Mr Pitt thought of doing with them, – & what he did with the
Land Tax,xx conspicuous as they were in the late reign, they neither of them in
my judgement have done any good to their country, nor will confer any honour upon it
in the judgement of posterity.
I am very glad that you are satisfied with my metre.th
proof of my first vol. of the War,d. of Lope de Aguirre.
Love to my Aunt – & Edward – & the children –