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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, WC 192 and 193. AL; 4p. . Not previously published.
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I have for some time been hoping that the course of your affairs would bring you to the North,
& more than once upon hearing a ring at the door, have indulged the thought that perhaps it might be Dr Bell. – The bell, you know, is seldom disturbed at this season of the year: during the summer
& autumn it is not suffered to rust for want of action. – However I shall see you ere long. In about four
weeks, if the printer
Did I tell you that during my Scotch tour I saw an excellent man, who was your contemporary, at
St Andrews, & would be delighted to renew his acquaintance with you, if anything should
take you to Perth? His name is Dr Wood.
We have lost poor good Mrs
Wilson, in her seventy eighth year. She was struck down by a paralytic seizure, & lay senseless till the
eighth day.
And now let me give you some tidings of myself. Lord Somervilles
I am waiting at home till the printer compleats my life of Wesley, long-lookd for, but finished
at last, as far as I am concerned. To the various attacks which it will draw upon me, I shall make no reply, nor
take any other notice of them, if they fall in my way, than that of silently correcting any errors if they point
out any, into which I may have fallen. The printer is about a dozen sheets behind xx me. & this will
give me time to clear off some other matters, – among others a poem upon the Kings death.
Your young friends, thank God, are all well: & much grown since you saw [MS missing]
The woman firmly believes this, – & the prophecy shows what sort of spirit is at work among
the populace. – Far as we are from the xxxx xxxxx scenes of contest, these elections keep the rabble of
Keswick in a ferment of & occasion more
drunkenness than would xxxx take place even on a fair day.