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I am in sight of the termination of my work, tho not so near it as I could wish. It will detain me xxx yet
three weeks longer. you will see us therefore the first week in June, if no unforeseen evil should occur. 480 pages are printed. When
you see the bulk of the volume you will not wonder at the length of time which it has cost me, & when you look at the business of
the year you will not wonder at the bulk.
Your friend Mr Stuart was ingenious enough to send the Valeroso Lucideno by the post,r S. hears this
good story of his own talents for sending a dispatch, he should think proper to present me with the book I shall think it well
purchased. About half its contents belong to my former volume, & tho it is certainly upon the whole of much less value than Brito
Freire’s work,xxx
xxx <proceeded in> it far enough to compare it with the Castrioto Lus.
It seems that the book having been licensed in 1648 was afterwards suppressed by the S. Officio,xx xxx twenty years afterwards. Whether xx it may afford any clue to the history of
this prohibition I shall ascertain in perusing it; I fear not. but this long suspension xxx <is> very probably the
reason why the work was never compleated.
I sent for a Spanish hist: of the Buccaneers which proves to be merely a translation of the common book, originally
written in Dutch.xxx xxxx xxx xxx xxx book worthless in
itself but from its subject interesting to us. Relation historique du Tremblement de Terre servenu a Lisbonne &c – avec un detail
contenant la perte &c – precedee d’un discours politique sur les avantages que le Portugal pourroit retires de son malheur, dans
lequel l’Auteur developpe les moyens que l’Angleterre avoit mis jusques, la en usage pour ruiner cette Monarchie. 1756.
I have neither heard nor seen any thing of Brougham. He
probably considers your answer as sufficient.
Some hopes have been given me of Tom’s promotion. Herries who is Perceval’s
sercretary & right hand & who in fact does the out-of-door business of Chancellor of the Exchequer, has spoken warmly in his
favour to Croker, & obtained a promise from him to speak to the First
Lord,xxx that he might meet me. This I suspect
refers to some plan for providing elementary books for his schools, & for the people at large, of the nature hinted at
in that reviewal.
Kehama
I shall write to say when we set out & when you may expect to see us – had I been travelling alone it would have
saved both time & distance if matters had been so arranged that you could have met me at Woburne –