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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, 1996.5.89. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
For permission to publish the text of MSS in their possession, the editor wishes to thank the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the Bodleian Library Oxford University; the British Library; Boston Public Library; the Syndics of Cambridge University Library; the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge; Haverford College, Connecticut; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the Hornby Library, Liverpool Libraries and Information Services; the Houghton Library, Harvard University; the John Rylands Library, Manchester; the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas; Luton Museum (Bedfordshire County Council); Massachusetts Historical Society; McGill University Library; the National Library of Scotland; the Newberry Library, Chicago; the New York Public Library (Pforzheimer Collections); the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; the Public Record Offices of Bedford, Suffolk (Bury St Edmunds) and Northumberland, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne; the Trustees of the William Salt Library, Stafford, the Wisbech and Fenland Museum; the University of Virginia Library.
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I thought I had written you an account of your new niece’s
arrival. her name is Isabel, – a
name of especial fitness, seeing that Dr Bell is her godfather. Your service we shall be
glad of next time, – as for it you know I hope for many
happy returns, being still nine short of the perfect number.
Duppa lives in Great Marlborough
Street, No 51. I forget what name is on the door – Woodford
or some such. There however you will find him, in a room which is as well worth
a shilling to see, as half the shilling sights in London.
I hope to see you at the end of April, but you will not get a bed
for me, for while I am in town I shall be expected to take up my abode at my old
quarters. Rickmans house has been my
London-home for ten years; it is a very convenient one, – there is Bedford next door,
franking in regular order of the day, & the river close at hand for water
conveyance to the city. I feel perfectly at home there, & most of those
persons with whom I am int familiarly intimate frequent the
house.
The Omnianaxxx success of any book is too much matter of
accident ever to calculate upon. I am getting on with the Register,xxxxxx peradventure find
it convenient sometime to make yourself agreabeau by showing a portion to some
Lady who “smit with the love of song,”xxxx more so if she should be smit
There are more ways of being agreabeau in London, than there are in
xxxxx Durham. An odour of literature will be of more use there
than an odour of fox-hunting; & you will find a little manuscript-poetry
like stolen waters
Papagaio
I shall remember you in my readings. – If you wish to see Coleridge, he is in your
neighbourhood – 71. Berners Street.friends acquaintance.