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National Library of Wales, MS 4812D. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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As for the Specimens I can only say that Hinchcliffes poem
I did not review Dutens.
What you say upon Bank notes has much good sense in it, & I shall avail myself of it, as also of any
thing remarks you may make upon any other part of the work.chu
high churchmen that their real danger is not from philosophy they will do some real good. By the by I learn that a book has been
written against my Anti-Methodistic review,
Trumpet shall be restored if you desire it: but I must use the word tambor in the Cid for the atambor of the Spaniards: it being evidently the same word, & very probably a different instrument from the drum. This
book will speedily go to press. The parcel which I expected from Lisbon has reached Liverpool, & as soon as it reaches me, I shall
make my bargain with the booksellers, with whom my reputation stands better than my cash account.
I give you joy of your hopes.
My reason for doing so little in the new Madoc was that it might not be supposed I had done anything, otherwise the
remains of the quarto would be rendered unsaleable.At present As yet I have heard no other return of its profits than the 3–17–1. & would have no expectation that ten
copies have told since. But as the poem strikes root, which ultimately it must & will do, that edition will be chosen for its size
& beauty, if it be not be superseded by a corrected one. Therefore I make no preliminaries or alterations [MS obscured] it be sold.
For some time I have been expecting & indeed almost hoping to hear of Horaces death.
We have well nigh got thro our indoor works. & I expect early next week no less than eight & twenty packages from Bristol, 18 of which are books. You see I have fairly anchored myself for life, & with an anchor too heavy ever to be weighed again.
Tomorrow I go to Ambleside for a few days, & am not without thoughts of
making a visit to Mrs Dixon.
Cobbett
x will now be with you.
Your godson is teething & has just been weaned from necessity. he is a fine fellow, & makes what I call a legitimate noise. Edith the younger is growing a great girl, & will soon with the help of grey hairs make me feel that I am no longer a young man. And yet by Gods blessing I trust to carry with me a boys heart & a boys spirits to the grave. I never yet saw any person whose spirits were so uniformly joyous.