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British Library, Add MS 47890. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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You made a sad blunder about the manuscript. I sent for the single Chronicle which you have among the loose books, that
it might be bound, because it cannot be made use of in its present state without injury, the board covers fretting the leaves as they
open & shut.
I was thoroughly wearied in London, indeed never at any before so compleatly jaded & worn down to the
very bone. I had no time to look for the Smiths – probably they will let me know
their approach that lodgings may be provided for them, & you also will arrange this with them, that you may meet. September is the
best month, or even later, for beauty. If you come during the cloudless weather of full summer you lose the lights & shades, the
scene shifting & machinery of heaven which form so great a part of the mountain magnificence. Your route should be by
way of Brummejam
Edith & the Edithling are, on the whole, both doing well, & yet the young one has had some things against her. owing to the quantity
of milk contained in her breasts the one has gathered & discharged, without however occasioning any apparent inconvenience to her.
a more fretting evil is the wind with which she is perpetually troubled, alike after the xxxx mothers milk & after every
other food with which we have tried her. – Ask King by what likely means we can hope
to alleviate this. Edith herself has not this complaint at present, nor has had
it of late. the young one struggles almost as if going into a fit, till it explodes with a loudness that sufficiently indicates the
pain it must have occasioned in her little stomach & throat. Perhaps this may induce Rex to write. – My eyes are again annoying me. it is an epidemic evil. many hundred of the soldiers & volunteers at
Manchester have been discharged in consequence of this complaint, which it seems came from Egypt,
Rickman
under cover to the Speaker asking him to inclose them to me. you will know how to do this without any blundering. the inner cover
must have only his name – no mention or hint of mine – the outer one Rt Honbl the Speaker &c &c, Westminster. & tell yon
King that the sooner these vignettes are in the Engravers hands the better.
The Poem goes off on Thursday to Edinburgh to be printed there.republished to prevent all possibility of deceiving any purchaser.rd as that would preclude xxx a fourth volume – or
it may be so calld, & any after volume christened by some peculiar name which will perhaps be the better plan. – The Amadisit has sold more copies of this have gone off in one year, than of Thalabaat the sale of the whole 1000 comes as a comfortable sweetener.
The box of lost goods came safe mirabile dictu!found an odd volume of D Quixote, bound in red morocco, stating that it spoils a set. it may thus be possibly recovered –
otherwise a set worth £3–12– in Portugal is utterly valueless.
remember me to Betty.
how is Cupid? how is Joe.