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By this you must have received the letter which I wrote in the
very depth of our distress. Indeed I have suffered sorely & sorely am
suffering – by day I can exert myself – I can read – & write & talk, but
Nature gets the better at night & my dreams
xxxx what has been suppressed by effort breaks out in dreams. We
reached Keswick yester-evening. the
sight of little
Sara
rs Lovell behind. Edith begged me not – at that time I
did not press the point – for we come with no plan of settling – merely as to
the first haven. I knew you would house us awhile – & that if her presence
was an objection to our remaining with you while we are thus unsettled that
lodgings are to be had in the neighbourhood. moreover as soon as a situation can
be found for her, I shall with great pleasure see her into the stage. I hardly
look forward, my hopes have been so often prolonged & are now so blasted –
but my wish is to finish & publish Madoc
Enough of this. you shall find me with little outward alteration. – now to transcribe your letters.
from Stuart.
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I have the pleasure to inform you that on Saturday last I sold
the M Post for 15,000£. seven eighths of which was paid down, the rest remains
in a share for the Editor Mr Byrne,r Flemingths
of as fully as I should have done.
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As far as I can conjecture your gout is willing to become gout if it could – the Gout medicine may help it on to this. I suppose you should try it in two ways. first by drinking 4 5 or 6 glasses at the interval of 1 2 or 3 hours each day. I suppose if in 4 5 or 6 days your stomach do not feel a different creature, it will be hardly worth while holding on.
But shd you not be careful that there be no vinegar brewed all this time? suppose the medicine by changing the stomach, changes all the sensations, a stomach-full of wind & sourness will change them all back again. I do not know if I can propose any means of prevention you have not already practised. But food not acescent in general, with super carbonated In ale (or calcined magnesia in case of costiveness) with ginger to check any commencement of acid fermentation seem to me to promise.
The second method must be confined to the time of appearance of gouty inflammation about the feet. Then I would urge the medicine, taking a glass (2oz) every 4 5 or 6 minutes till I glowed red hot. I have more expectation from this cutting & spurring than the other gentle lashing. Most medical men would recommend the Bath waters, supposing them to connect the letters g o u t with the other sufferings
I should have been glad of your remarks on my Essays,
I possibly may be able to send you in a few weeks 48 pages worth
all the good & tolerable of all Hygeia.juxta-position of time, I shall feel some gratification.
for I am anxious <curious> to know whether
I have anticipated your opinion of its demerits. So far you may proceed on
recollection. particular doctrines may require reference.
So wishing (if you wish it) that you may writhe & write
I am &c –
How is the Liver? I think nothing of the paralytic feelings. they may be paralytic, but the palsy of hysteria & hypochondriasis goes off always: & there may be very different states of nerve producing impotence of will over muscles.
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from Dr Anti-podagra.
Sir
It is seldom that I feel more satisfaction in any action than I
do in the one I am now engaged in. A letter from Dr Beddoes
yesterday informed me you were gouty – he need not have added that you wished to
be cured – for I shd have supposed it. I have in my possession a kind of nectar
(for it removes pain, & of course promotes pleasure, & may in the end
immortalize – me) – [MS torn] I freely offer to you. I will farther add the
prediction founded on experience, that you may be relieved from the gout &
your general health improved into the bargain. for confirmation of this you may
consult Sir Wilfred Lawson Bartyour near you, & Thomas Wyndham Esqr M P
&c
A Welles.
18 London Vale London.
<After Michaelmas my address will be 44 Upper Titchfield Street.>
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Now do not damn the second Solomon
Moses is the same unique. he makes me wonder.
God bless you Coleridge. why will you play such fools-tricks with yourself!
Longmans fears have delayed
the Bibliotheca
See Elmsley if
you go to Edinburgh. he lives in St Andrews Square. I
wrote to him in so happy a mood upon his marriage
[start of Sara Coleridge’s hand]
My poor dear, your letters from Fort-william gave me the
heartache I little thought your journey would have ended in so short a time
when will the Wordsworth’swalk will knock you up, without
Shoes, without money, good luck! good luck! – I got £5 pounds of Southey,
and five of Mr
Jackson, as he had not setled with me I think he must have said as
much as that or more, and I think ten-pounds will not be too much for you as
you are situated. – Poor Hartley’s other eye is now closed up with a sting – he does not
mind it – Sara is
inoculated and her Arm in good fashion; a child is dead at Buttermere in the
small pox – More
I shall be glad when you are safe at home – this is Thursday
night, I fear you will wait long at Perth for this letter. Derwent is quite well – I
have had another kind letter from Lady Beaumont. – There was a letter for Mrs
Wordsworth from Inverness. – I suppose you will write to Southey.
yours,
Sara C– .