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BL Add. MS 28268, ff. 404–05
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I am just going to Windsor to stay till Monday night, and no longer. I have letters to recieve here at that time,
and must be back. Uncle Nat is
much better, and begins to eat heartily. I wish I could give you as good an
account of my own prospects and hopes. I am grieved to wound your feelings, but
I realy doubt that myself and my poetry are out of fashion from the taste of the
times. Baldwin is cold, and I have
tried through Mr Park and Mr Rogers to get the poem into the
hands of Murry. If he too says the
same, good bye fine prospects! At all events you for one,
shall not remain at Shefford whatever
becomes of me. I have just seen James who desires me to tell you that he is better. He helps me to
scold at the Booksellers and is one of my comforters. You may be sure that I
shall write if better news start, and whatever starts I will write on Tuesday or
start off home, though I do at least as much good here. I cary a bag of blue
Devils to Windsor, where I hope to let them loose. Anxiety makes me sick,
otherwise I am quite compos mentis, and begging you to arm your mind against the
worst side of my concerns, and screw up your strong understanding to meet
adversity if it should come. I am your affectionate father
I will explain more next time, make yourselves easy, I do all that I can, and that is all you can wish.
While I am writing comes a Note from Hampsted,
God bless you.