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I have to thank you for the remainder of the Slave Trade Report.xxx bundles of papers to
some spare garret – if such you have.
Of late my time has been much disturbed by sundry Lakers & much occupied by Madoc.quaremoney among certain Indians who lay within
his conquests.
My hemp-stretch brother is at length shipped off by DickensonSalvador del Mundo was a 112-gun ship of the line, captured from the Spanish at the battle of Cape St
Vincent in 1797.Carysfort was a 28-gun
The Anthologies are going off to Longman this day that so many of my pieces as will make a volume may be reprinted
from them. x correcting a few blunders of my own & a good many of the printers, &
arranging a Table of Contents, will produce me about 25£ for every 500 copies which may sell. No mighty profit this – but worth
having. & it is not unlikely that the book may sell from its presentable size & price – for single volumes of poetry sell
chiefly as presents.
The annual work is coming round again.Dundasish
Do you know if Turner has received a parcel of books which I sent him?
Davy has been here & appeared more Londonized than he did in London. he had
the most coxcombical coat on that ever came from a Bond street taylor, & he contrived to make it seem suitable. Dr Crompton famous in the annals of Nottingham Electioneering was among our Lakers – a nondescript fish.xxxxx also
The little one is well. there are however symptoms that most certainly may, & that most naturally, bear a bad aspect. I am on the watch & will use every possible method of precaution, as the time of teething comes on. It is the main evil of a remote situation that such medical advice as I could confidently follow, is not within reach when wanted.
The Whitehaven Paper has just told me that the days of franking are over.