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BL Add. MS 28268, ff. 111–12
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I have been writing the enclosed to my Mother, to Isaac and to Mr Lofft, and now it is your turn.—
One of Corley’s sons brought me a packet containing a Vollm of
Gregory’s Oeconomy of Nature,other objection to my standing
the whole expense besides that of its being expensive and
appearing in you eyes unfair?? Or do my part of the business appear like
swallowing the House, Tiles and all, against your will? I don’t want the House!
I only say that nobody out of the family shall have it if I can help it. and
this, with your permission, I will stick to. In thus looking forward you cannot
pretend to set bounds to my Fancy nor I to yours. suppose I say that, ‘twenty
years hence I mean to buy what wasHonington Green and throw it open
and erect upon it a pedestal in honour of the pastoral Muse! This is dreaming
with a vengence; but if you dislike it you may say somthing to wake me. I have a
great and an inexplicable veneration for the House and the place of our birth.
Trudge says to Inkle in the play—
I feel myself alive George just now in rather an extraordinary degree, and I do wish, and it is a good wish, that you would all make peace; and trust to Heaven, and to the growth of your infant children for joys to come, and for the expansion of brighter views. And to induce you to it I have to add, that it is the intention of the Booksellers, Mr Hood, and Longman & Rees, to better my last bargain as to ‘Rural Tales,’ which was made under disadvantageous circumstances as you well know, by the further compliment of £100, in consequence of their great sale. As this is but a verbal promise I say nothing of it to Mr Lofft. You will find that I have given Mr Austin an assurance by the enclosed Note to him, and under all these circumstances I trust with a strengthened confidence in the ultimate triumph of affection over the yowls of our bosom pride, and the crackers of resentment.
Our love to your Wife and Children
I send my
Mother a little cheese; and Isaac a little further
profit on Rosy Hannah
Look at the critick on Miss Wellers poems at the bottom of
page 255 of the Mirror,two lines, following each other, that do not trespass on the
fences of grammar or common sense. Had Miss W. taken words
indiscriminately from a dictionary, and arranged them in lines, she
could not have been less successful, and she might, by
chance, have written better.’