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British Library, Add MS 47890. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I am glad to receive your second letter, – an evil well over being very much like a good. – Bakers Chronicle
There can be no cheaper part of England than the country about Whitehaven, somewhere between this place & that
would be the most desirable residence for you. I will make all the enquiry which I can, & you must come & look out
yourself in a when you can leave home with comfort. I sincerely wish it were in my power to be of any use to your
sisters,
Part of my books from abroad have reached London, – I believe the Acta Sanctorumr Vardon gives them a passage in one of his ships to Newcastle. There
are some Dutchmenr Nash. He is a little deformed man, who was a miniature painter (a most admirable one) in India, where he
held the office at one time of Sherriff at Bombay, & from whence I apprehend he has returned with a fortune adequate to his
wants. A more equal-minded or pleasanter companion I have seldom met with: he was of the Vardons party, & we parted from him
at Calais, he taking the road for Paris, from whence he is now returning. The sooner he comes the better, as I wish the drawings
to be in the Engravers hands.
I have written 200 lines of my poem,t Helens Auckland.
Your Durham bookseller talks like a blockhead about editions. If a book purports to be the third in its title & in its lettering, by what possible indication can he judge it to be the fourth?? It is common enough to give the appearance of a new edition – by a new title page, – but no fraud was
to the contrary kind of falsehood would be an Irish fraud.