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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, KESMG 1996.5.181. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I have not written to you from expectation of learning something from Ld Proby – & also because I thought St Patricks Purgatory
My mother has caught fresh cold, & the plunge has been a severe one. I was
with her last week, & left her some little better, & her letters tell me she still gets better, but slowly – & is very
weak. I wrote to my Uncle desiring she might go to Lisbon, where I was am confident the climate & the quiet will restore her. In this case I must see her into the
packet – & my Uncle take her out of it. You know what an effect society
produces upon her. I shall therefore as soon as possible remove to Bath – but unluckily Edith is so unwell that I know not how to manage this. I know not how to remove her from Maurice
Lloyd is in London – I have taken some steps between him & Sophia which will I believe make all things well again.
Edmund Oliver
I shall want you Tom to work out six dozen of cyder now on the way to me. I wish now you were at Yarmouth – there you would have friends – & I might stand a chance of seeing you in May.
It is probable that I shall manufacture another volume of poems for this winter: & in that case it will be
adviseable to have as many ballads as possible. if you hear any seamans superstition fit for such a purpose do communicate it. On
finishing the corrections of Joan of Arc, which one evenings work will now conclude, the next job is to make the old 9th book into a volume.
MowbrayMagicienne.
Soon afterwards he returned to command the sloop The Fly.
As for the invasion it must certainly be intended against Ireland
March 12. 98.