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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, KESMG 1996.5.116. ALS; 2p. . Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Ian Packer and Lynda Pratt
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My poor castaway brother is ill, – very probably I think consumptive. Pray send the Doctor ten pounds for his immediate use; from him I shall hear the state of the case, & will provide farther aid as necessity may require.
Your last letter was not in a good tone of spirits, & it is a good while since I have heard from you. – Remember that a letter from you when it implies all well, is one of my best cordials.
Tell me whether in the Hist. of the Pen: War Chapt 2. I have mentioned the story of an egg with an
certain letters upon the shell, & whether in the text, or in a note: it ought to be in the account of the Sebastianists pp.134
– 8. Let me know this as soon as you can because I have reason to refer to it in the chapter which I am now writing.
I wish you were with us to enjoy the last sunshine & temperate part of the year. Your god son would win your heart, as he does every body’s who knows him. And Edith sketches with so accurate an eye & ready a hand, that I should now desire no better companion upon a journey, to use the pencil while I was busy with the pen.