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Berg Collection, New York Public Library. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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You see I have taken wing from London & am breathing rather a
better air than that composition of dust – smoke – smuts & human breath
which floats between Charing Cross & Temple Bar. My back windows look to the
fields – & a two minutes walks takes me to
the Exchange
However we shall have a bustle of our own speedily – & you
know the interest excited by a revolution is nothing to what an Election
occasions. Hobhouse
So much for our politics – & you meanwhile? will there be a
valiant contest there? or will any body stand upon Tierneys ground?
I do not go to Ireland. particular circumstances of a pleasant
natureof to us as
soon as you conveniently can? we are in want of its contents. if it is not quite
full Mr Colemant James’s Place – Kingsdown – Bristols words are enough. I am ashamed & vexed at thinking of the
trouble to which I put you & Mr Coleman – whom I hope I
shall one day thank in person.
My way of life is the same as ever – as much activity of head & laziness of limbs as may be, & of the latter more than ought to be – sometimes I do go forth & walk for health sake – but with an ill will that makes me envy the Turks who can live without exercise. my employment is almost exclusively history – & so little poetry have I written for these last eighteen months that I am half unwilling to write any more lest I feel a decrease of power & should have grown awkward from disuse.
Edith desires to be remembered.
remember me with her to your mother. your little girl