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Houghton Library, Harvard College, fMS Eng 776, f.19
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I received your invitation to dinner and anticipated much
pleasure in the meeting. Then how was it that I was not amongst you? Simply as
follows, and simple it was indeed on my part. I read your letter as specifying
Thursday as the day. And I wishd particularly to thank
Mr Southey for the pleasure I
received from his excellent memoir of K. White, and I wanted as particularly to meet Mr Park who has a fragment of mine for
inspection, and I wanted to see you all. I have been the whole week in
expectation of this promised treat, and had set apart this
day for its accomplishment, and about an hour ago I again consulted
your note with a view of learning the hour of meeting,
when, to my confusion, I perceived that you had written Tuesday; though utterly unsuspected on my part, for the note had
rested quietly on the shelf unexamin’d. & now if it was in good manners
allowable, I could sincerely exclaim, ‘Plague take your little u-’s and e-’s.
and U-’s for misleading me’. I feel both sorry, and ashamed. And though I have
blunderd somthing in this way before; I never had so much cause to regret it.
You might well wonder that I neither wrote to apologise, nor made my appearance.
It reminds me of the Countryman, who, having just attended his Father’s Funeral,
was ask’d ‘whether he did not cry? He answerd ‘No, I dont think I cried, but I
was D—mnd.’
I write now to Mr Park
had you luckily happen’d to put in your invitation the
day of the month as well as the day of the week, perhaps it might have turn’d out otherwise.