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British Library, Add MS 30928. Not previously published.
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I ought to have replied answered your last letter ere this, – but I have had a pressure of letters of
business on my hands & also I desired Tom to tell you whether he could
xxx find a bed for David at St Helens. There
lies the only difficulty, – on our journey a third will be convenient as well as agreable, – because in case of rain, or fatigue,
or bad quarters, we can then take chaise for a stage, either for the sake of expedition, or of comfort. I believe we must provide
David with a bed in the town, for since I wrote to you respecting Hort,
I shall finish the Register
There is a stage from Kendal to Keswick Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays, which starts at six in the morning. And there is a mail from Liverpool which reaches Kendal about five: your better way then will be to secure places in that mail for Friday: it sets out about five in the afternoon. But you must lose no time in securing them, for I believe only two places can be taken at Liverpool, the other chances being reserved for a coach from Manchester which joins at Preston.
You may give me sorrow of my summer cold. It is today in full force, & no doubt will continue till I drop it somewhere on the road upon our projected journey.
My politics are very gloomy. The best part of the prospect is that Spain & Portugal are likely to be free when
an Englishman who neither likes a Methodist Church Establishment, nor a Military Government with xxx xxx xx must look
out for an asylum: Catholick Emancipation will lead to the first of these evils, – the Burdettites to the second, & Marquis Wellesleys
I am sorry to hear Rex has been so ill. – Tell him Count JulianMurray.
I learn that Martha writes as if she were coming on from Liverpool without you.
Make your movements entirely to your own convenience, whether you come with her, or after her, is to us equally convenient. –
xxx except that we like to begin upon gooseberries pies & to see an old friend, always xxx as
xxxx xx soon as possible. The campaign against the gooseberries was opened this day.