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Thank God I have at last accomplished the business of settling
my mother, a business which
three months ago I almost feared would be impracticable. I write to you from
Westbury, one of the villages at
the end of Durdham Down, two miles from Bristol. the house I have taken for her
is a very old one. but my revolutionizing hand has already removed much rubbish
& added some conveniences. there is a garden large enough to supply our
table, & the back view is extensive, & as beautiful as a prospect can be
without any characteristic sublimity, which has only hill, & wood vale, & wood to vary it.
I cannot tell you from what a weight I feel relieved by this change in her situation. Edith too is evidently better. We are as busy as you may conceive, but the fatigue of preparing future comfort is itself almost comfortable. I hope my mother may like the place enough, & find it agree with her health so well, as to make it her continued home. I should like to make it the place of my summer visit, & feel when in London that I had also a home in a pleasanter place.
We came here only on Monday; in a few days I hope all bustle will
be over, & I shall quietly settle into regularity. It is a long time since
you have written. In my last I enquired for your brother
I thought to have seen Wales this summer & had expected much
pleasure. other reasons however make me willingly give up the plan, &
excepting a visit to Hereford & its neighbourhood I shall be stationary here
till we remove again to London. my
mother will receive a regular small income from her brother, but it has been her removal from Bath has been a
heavy expence, & for a short time I keep house. I now believe she will
recover her health. indeed the prospect before me is fairer than I ever remember
it.
My Letters
If you have an Anthologia
— ιεςου υπυου;
Κοιμαται,
θνησκειυ μη
λεγε τουγ
αγαθους
I have forgotten the beginning of the hexameter.
I saw your name in the debates
Direct as usual to Cottles.