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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, KESMG 1996.5.70. 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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God bless you & your wife ! – That
prayer will take away the ill omen of beginning a congratulatory letter with tidings of sorrow, – for I have such to add, – We
buried Emma on Tuesday last, – Mrs Peachy’s god child, – Our next news I dare say will be that Mrs P. herself is laid to rest in Madeira. – This has been a heavy stroke, – how heavy you will
never know till you have children of your own, & then God grant that you may never know it otherwise than by the delight you
take in them.
As soon as I can leave Edith I shall set off for Durham, sending my
trunk before me. Let me by return of post have your direction by which to send it, – & tell me if George Taylor
Your will hint to it will own feelings I doubt not will lead you to give Mary a hint (as delicately as may be) of my partiality
for gooseberry pie, & of the distinction between male & female pies, & of the heresy of eating them hot. The last time
I was in her fathers house was at a funçaō,rs Gonne used to tell me Mary Sealy ‘had a heart’. – now as Tristram Shandy
Edith & Herbert are very desirous to know when they may go & see their new Aunt. Our distance is not so great but that one of these days a Commercial Treaty of Visits may be established. Ediths love –