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Bodleian Library, MS Don. d.3. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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There are three reasons why I should send you a hasty letter, – quite enough for me as a true Bard, & more than
enough as an Anti-Athanasian.
first: John May in a letter this instant received says he waits for
you to apply for your money due on Ladyday.x
state it yourself also.
secondly here is a passage about the Bubas which involves a new theory concerning them, as if they were supposed, like
scurvy to be produced by unwholesome food.
Ea est demum erga vinctos totius victus ratio, ut qui ex illa miserias (a false print I suppose
for miseria) non egrediuntur ad rogum, ut plurimum, aut in illo carcerum pedore animas exhalare soleant, aut sævo illo morbo quem Gallicum vocant vulgo bubas, ex victus & humorum corruptione contracto egressi
contabescant, aut ex atræ bilis redundantiâ in insaniam incidant, aut denique pessimo corporis habitu sint utique
dispositi ad has easdem ægritudines, aliasve graviores, sibi postmodium conciliandas, in quibus perpetuo
contabescentes vitam trahant miserabilem plane, ac ipsa morte duriorem.
I do not know that this can be of any use to you as your Thesis is finished, & it is not desirable to lengthen, what you will find quite long enough in your printers bill; – but the passage is curious, & is likely to have escaped those who have investigated the subject; & it shows that the disease was supposed to be sometimes self-produced. The Author was a Spanish Protestant, & I guess born at Seville; it is certain that he lived there.
Thirdly – I start on Sunday – meet Wordsworth at Penrith,
& travel with him till I reach the fit place for turning Eastward toward Norwich: unless Wm Taylor should wish me to delay my visit for a few weeks – which is not likely. I shall
be with him about Thursday evening, & stay just a week: then move for London, halting perhaps one day at Thetford on the way up
with Wilkinson (of Ormathwaite who was)
I forwarded you a second letter directed here, last week & acknowledged on its cover <outside>
the the receipt of the draft.
Wynns marriage takes place in the Easter week,fishiate as Bedford once saw the
word spelt.
I do not think of replying to W. Scotts letter, your receipt to
the money is sufficient