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Bodleian Library, MS Don. D3. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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My commissions amount only to a supply of magnesia, & of pens, the latter better than those you sent which were
very indifferent. Also if you will bring with you a journal of the route you take from Edinburgh here – the more minute the
better, such as may do for my Spaniard who must go into Scotland.
No news from Lisbon. Letters from Tom at the same time with the evil
news of the Rochefort Squadron – of which he knew nothing when he wrote. I shall be <am> very uneasy about him.
he is in the thick of the danger – & even if he escapes will almost certainly lose all the prize money which he has made.Amelia in December 1804.o business is the luckiest thing
that could have happened.
Can you ascertain whether or no Dr Brown wrote the review of Thalaba? his poems are so beyond
all comparison the very worst that ever were written, that if the thing were proved, I would by some means or other give him the
retort courteous.Brunnonian sy ‘the Brunnonian system
The circulation of the blood is mentioned most clearly by a Spanish Farrier 1564. I learn this from Feyjoo.tea
instructing the deaf & dumb was carried to greater perfection by a Spanish Benedictine about the same time than it has ever
been done since. I learn this from a contemporary writer of the highest authority. And I have found the needle mentioned in a Code
of Laws written in Spain fifty years before its reputed discovery at Amalfi or Naples by Gioia.
Tomorrow I walk to Grasmere. Madoc is not yet arrived here – nor have I heard any thing of him except from Wm Taylor,
We are well. Mrs C. still at Liverpool & now visiting the Kosters – she returns in about ten days –