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British Library, Add MS 30928. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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The Box arrived this evening, – the Dolls safe, & nothing the worse for keeping, except I fear the seeds, which
are very damp. Mrs Lovell seems however to think them chiefly
old acquaintance of no great rarity, so that her regret is the less.
There are some books in Gutchs Catalogue of which I shall be glad, if they
are not sold.
When you have purchased these let me know the sum total of my debt to you & I will send you a draft to the
amount. The books may wait awhile, for the convenience of the memories down stairs, – they probably may recollect some commissions
for Martha in the course of a few days, – but it is x advisable to lose
no time in securing them.
Give my daughters thanks to Hort, & mine also. I will write to him very shortly.
I am very very very busy. My first volume will be out in about two months.xxx & offering me 20 guineas a sheet to do it,
& hoping I would make if fill three sheets.price & not their intrinsic value, I am cert quite willing
to accommodate them by being paid as highly as they please.
My Uncle takes Streatham, & resigns his Herefordshire preferment, persuaded to this by the advice of his friends, in opposition to his own judgement. Streatham is valued at 1000£ a year. It will suit me in many respects to have him near London. He expects to remove there in the summer.
Tom has got the American Madoc for me, & it is on its way.th Quarterly.
The Life of Nelson is by Stanier Clarke,xxx <upon> such a subject I am desired x not to spare. You may
remember my reviewal of the Arch Quacks Hist. of Maritime Discovery in the 2d Annual.
God bless you. I have written with a sick head-ache, which has prevented me from going out to spend the evening, –
& now I shall amuse myself with warm & water & a feather. What a pity that a Gentleman with so sweet a
temper, – should have so sour a stomach belonging to it! but my bouts (as you call them) are not like yours. I suffer
comparatively nothing, – & when I am not can bring forth an occasional pun, – when I am not bringing up any thing
else.