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It seems to me that the eventual removal of William Taylor from
Norwich takes away the main reason for preferring it to any other place, – & that the competition of Dr
Reeve,
The Peacheys are not coming this year. This has been long
determined on. They have taken Combe Flory,xxx <Mrs P.> is said to be pretty well. The Imperial took a
hyper-imperial freak into his head some months ago; – he thought Europe could not be delivered without his exertions, & negociated
an exchange into some regiment on service. Just when every thing was concluded, some difficulties were started at the War-Office, which
broke off the business, & he remains therefore in inglorious inactivity.
For one day I should be hardly be glad to see you. Make it something longer, & come the
sooner come you come the better: the old boat is in good order, the old stones at the marooning-point in the same place, –
& we will make the most of the time you can spare.
As for Mr Southey it is plain that we must disinherit him for an undutiful Uncle. There must be something very like craziness both in that man & his elder brother, or they never would have acted so unreasonably – It is well the breed is mended
My Cid
The Annual has not yet reached me, – there is a parcel on the way, in which it ought to be contained. You will see in
it what I said of Spain twelvemonths ago,medical things which you may or may not know, but which it is not amiss to mention upon the chance.
A practitioner somewhere in the middle of England has started a new theory respecting small-pox: that the cold treatment by not
suffering the disease to exhaust itself in eruption, leaves behind a leaven in the system, – which is the cause of the increased
ravages of consumption. – You will disbelieve this as I do, – but such things may serve for reference in to be referred to
in some of your reviewals – Some physician or surgeon at Birmingham gives great relief in inveterate asthmas, by having the chest
rubbed with spirits every morning – In the last Vol. of the Asiatic Researches is a paper upon ‘the Remarkable Effects of Sol-Lunar
influence upon the Fevers of India’the it had been thought so in India, it would not
have been inserted in such a work. –
You had better trouble Arthur Aikin with a line. – We are going on well, – except that I have one of my obstinate colds, now almost a month old, – & every return of hot-weather as usual freshens it. Herbert & Emma have just been vaccinated – the former was very ill in a bilious fever about five weeks ago; – the disease went thro the place, – scarcely any children escaped it. Rhodes lost his eldest & this was the only death, – but it went very hard with Herbert & reduced him very much.
Ediths love – a kiss from my daughter , – & Mrs Coleridge desires to be gratefully remembered, I having taken care to remind her that you saved her life three times.