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MS untraced; Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents Formed Between 1865 and 1882 by Alfred Morrison, 6 vols (London, 1883–1892). Previously published: Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents Formed Between 1865 and 1882 by Alfred Morrison, 6 vols (London, 1883–1892), VI, pp. 161–162.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I have a pile of prophecies, full half a yard high, at my right hand, which any reasonable man would think enough in
all conscience. My head is full of The Woman in the Wilderness, The Beast, Adam and Eve, The Old Dragon, The Man on the White Horse,
The Scarlet Whore, The Four and Twenty Elders who continually do cry,
The great bookseller of the prophets in 1792 & the days of Brothers
You will by this see what I am about, but of no fewer than nineteen of Joanna Southcott’s pamphletts have I extracted about half a sheet of Espriellaism,
Thank you for two good letters, of which I shall make three, by expanding the Literary Fund part into a separate one.
The Exhibition must now be for 1803, because that of the preceding year has been long closed, it needs only to omit the notes of the
particular pictures, or to particularize others in their stead, which perhaps is not needful.
I do not see why you should determine upon publishing only one more edition of your book.
I must probably pass thro’ London before I leave England, but it will not be till the spring. The papers talk strangely
about Portugal, and not altogether improbably. I wish their speculations may be true, and should enjoy a legation to Brazil, in spite
of the voyage.
We have a sick and somewhat comfortless house. Tom is very unwell,
Hartley & Sara in the measles, Edith (the Edithling I mean) has not caught it from Derwent,
consequently we have another fortnight to wait before it can appear, and perhaps she may escape after all, which, now we have been so
long in expectation, I do not altogether wish. Besides this, I am inclined to think that the greatest event which can take place in a
man’s household is nearer at hand than has been calculated, & should not be surprised any day or any hour at the arrival of a son
or daughter.
Coleridge ought to be in England.
I had rather you had been going to Northumberland than to Leominster, as then you would have crossed this way. If you were here we would soon cure the low spirits – a disorder that never keeps its ground where I am. God bless you.