I very much approve your laudable curiosity to know the precise meaning of that noble word horsemangandering.

Before I tell you its application, you must be informed of its origin & history. Be it therefore known unto you, that Mrs Coleridge, the whole & sole inventor of the never-to-be-forgotten Lingo-grande (in which by the bye I purpose erelong to compose a second epistle)

thought proper one day to call my daughter a great horsemangander, thinking I suppose that that appellation contained xx as much unfeminine meaning as could be put into any decent compound. From this substantive the verb has been formed to denote an operation performed by the said daughter upon the said Aunt, – of which I was an astonished spectator. The horsemangander, that is to say Edith May, being tall & strong, <came behind> took the person to be horsemangandered (to wit Mrs C) <& took her> round the waist, under the arms, then jumped with her all the way from the kitchen into the middle of the parlour, the motion of the horsemangandered person at every jump being some thing like that of a paviours rammer,

& all resistance impossible

Thank you for the half notes. I believe the only demand against me is the Taylors (Hydes

successor) for my last years clothes. I will beg you to discharge this when you receive the next pension. And when I come to London you shall introduce me to your cheaper knight of the thimble.

I do not mistranslate beau ideal when I write of the fair ideal of a work of art, a human character, or a commonwealth.

I have no objection to Anglicize a word from any language when we have no equivalent for it, & would therefore write menagery, & naivety but I have a very great objection to see written English interlarded with foreign phrases.