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National Library of Wales, MS 4811D. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Yours with the draft reached me by this days post, – my letters never reach me in time to be acknowledged by return – & luckily this makes no delay in the present case.
With regard to my expences, reviewing & the Morning Post have enabled me to support their increase. at present I
was xxx almost out of cash from a delay in the newspaper payment; I had given them notice that from the
state of my health &c I could not engage beyond the existing quarter, & they may likely have dropped their punctuality when it
was no longer their interest to be punctual. Beddoes I have not consulted,
because I am satisfied with the advice of Maurice
Both Maurice & Davy agree with Dr
Skeythere, that the effects would be constant
& in the pulsation. the pain therefore must be muscular, & the irregular action, nervous. that I am in a state of diseased
irritability (mark you – not of temper!) I daily & hourly feel. for this I xx am about to try a
medecine prescribed in like cases by Beddoes with success – & I am using an
external application to my side, which is certainly less painful. At present I am losing strength – the flood gates of my bowels have
again been opened, & a slight complaint of this nature materially weakens one already much debilitated.
I have given up the Morning Post,
For some days I have been thinking of your Xmas readings & endeavouring to bear-lick some lump-ideas into shape.
something you shall have – but I have not the prophetic feeling of its worth – nor will the happy stories of the Old Woman & her
Son the Surgeon be soon equalled.xxxxx <are some>
Greek stories, which would be fine ground-works if I had enough knowledge to manage them – & Greek diablerie would have some
novelty now.