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Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 26. ALS; 4p. . Not previously published.
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If my presentation list for the Vision
I always spell Judgement with an e, as I do acknowledgement – dgm being unpronounceable.
I read all my proof sheets xxxxx twice aloud, – once on the day when they arrive &
a second time on the morrow, – except the proofs for the QR.
I have at this time two other proofs on the table, – one of Lope de Aguirre
Aguirre will make an interesting little volume, the 34th which I shall have
published in that size, if the Carmen Nuptiale, & Carm. Aulica are bound together in one.
It did not occur to me in my last to ask if you had paid Sharon Turner the expences incurred in consequence of Lord Somervilles
death,xxx sundries expended on my account. – inter alia, a very magnificent montero,
Have you seen the portrait in the Percy Anecdotes from poor dear Nash’s miniature of me?
perhaps we might proceed with the line without much impropriety considering that in historical romance Troynovant is the name of London –
– nec illiacos cætus nisi rerus adibat
I shall not give up the hope of seeing you. My
daugher Edith has a good x genius for the best kind of domestic manufactures wines sweetmeats
&c – yesterday there was a second brewing of what is called ginger wine, but of which the former brewing vied
with perry. We reckon upon you at the drinking thereof.
Poor Cupn had on a blister last night for a swelled face, which strangely enough seems to have endemic here during <the> hot suns & cold winds which have of late prevailed. A gathering was apprehended under the ear, at the point of the jaw. The remedy sorely troubled him all night; what effect it may have is yet to be seen, – at present he is chearful & happy. – You would be much amused with him.
And now I must spend the rest of the evening with Oliver Cromwell.