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Your letter found me at Rydale Mount, & I have been looking with
some anxiety for a farther report from the Doctor, but have as yet heard
nothing from him since we parted at Ambleside. – Kosters partner (who has an
unrememberable name beginning with Gil-)
I have franked up the first Chapter of my second volume to Bedford that he may convey it to you.xxx so; – there are some striking circumstances in the
recovery of Pernambuco. I follow it with a chapter De Moribus,xxx struggles in Maranham &c. –
Harry will have told you that I am xxx a member of the Spanish
Academy,xxx xxx xxx xxx <I may perhaps
experience the> greater honour of having my name struck out of the list when my Historyam should be strongly inclined to go to Madrid, & see how much of the mystery could be unriddled upon the
spot. In spite of my unwillingness to move from home, & the inconveniences & expence &c – it is so fitting for me to
go, that were a suitable companion to offer himself I should probably consent. I have been dreaming over the map in what route to
take Covadonga,
Abella has sent me a transcript of the Poema del Ferran Gonzalez, a poem not later
than the 13th century.
Longman delays the publication of Roderickxxx all real histories – & the whole scenery of the poem sketched from the life. We spent a day last week in
visiting the chief scene (Blea Tarn) with Lady Olivia Sparrow
If the unborn should prove of the more worthy gender I must create him a Viscount.
Arrowsmith must now put our map in hand:x shall not be easy xxx
till I know that your alarms are over.
Mrs McTaggart