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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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You are perfectly right in supposing I meant a sandwich tray. 36/s was
the price <what> we paid at Rings for my Uncles, – the
difference of price therefore surprizes me. However we have no friend whom we can trouble at Liverpool, & perhaps Mrs C. speaks of what was the price there three years ago.
You are right too in concluding that if I had received any letters from Mr Smith I should have answered them. One letter he wrote to me let me know his sister had arrived at Lisbon, & no other
has ever reached me, – her return I learnt only from you, & accidentally from Edinburgh by way of Harry. this, on my part, I also thought odd, when I thought about it – but now the
mystery is explained, & I will without delay write to him.go to the
press <be compleated> till I have got at some books in the Museum
Espriella should be kept generally secret in the hope of passing unknown by the Reviewers.
Revisit Keswick you must. I will enter into a sort of commercial treaty of visits with you, & whenever I go to London, which is to be every other year, take Bristol either going or returning. It is only because this is such a little island that we who count distance by miles, think it a long way between Bristol & Keswick. nearly 300 miles has a long sound – call it 70 leagues & it does not appear so bad. On the continent it would be thought nothing.
The Islanders