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Bodleian Library, Don. d. 3. Not previously published.
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Dr Baillie & Sir Henry Halforda pair of some speckled grey pantaloons of
such make & materials as your Lordship (in these things of approved judgement) may think most suitable: they may be made in
readiness & sent to your house. I must shoe myself at the patent warehouse, – for I have found the nail-shoes answer admirably
well. And as I shall travel to London in that hat which I dare
Louisa I dare say has not forgotten, you will perhaps think it expedient that I
should purchase a new one in town, & accompany me, thro some bye streets, to a shop where I may be fitted in the newest
fashion.
Thus far & not a word of the day when I set off. The delay cannot inconvenience you so much as it vexes me, for
fear it should inconvenience you at all. I hope to leave home this day week, which will bring & in that case to reach
London on Friday. It is not unlikely that Henry Koster will accompany me to town,
& join us at Ramsgate. He has been laid up here so long, that now when he is got fairly upon his legs again, he seems like one of
the family, & if he gets leave to go we shall find him a useful person to place upon the staff.
Good night! I must lose no time in letter writing. You shall hear again from me when I write to Carlisle to secure my
place in the mail. – Should we not do wisely if we hoy’d it to Margate, baggage & all together?
I am in great hopes of getting a set of the Acta Sanctorum in Flanders. Nothing would delight me so much, & scarcely anything
would be of such essential utility.