I do not know Chantrys

direction & therefore entrust to your care a letter of thanks for Wordsworths bust which he has given me.

I had received it as a present from Wordsworth but am now desired to consider it as coming from the artist himself, – a circumstance which of course will give it additional value in my eyes. – It is an exceedingly fine thing – nothing can be better either in likeness or expression.

By the time this reaches you I shall be far on the road to Harrogate. I set off on Wednesday sleep at Kendal & meet Edith May & Miss Hutchinson the next afternoon at Bolton Abbey.

My intention is to stay three days at Harrogate, just to see the place & its immediate neighbourhood: & return by Fountains Abbey – Hack-fall & Wensley Dale.

Our weather is perfectly delicious. I bathe every day like a river God in the Greta about half a mile above Calverts,

one of the sweetest sheltered spots upon its whole course. I assure you it is no small exertion to go even for ten days from home in this beautiful season which is worth all the rest of the year.

I am very near the end of my volume

– but the Printer

is slow. – The Dedication which I had partly written to Ld Sidmouth,

may better be prefixed to my Dialogues

– & I have determined upon something like this