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British Library, Add MS 30927. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
For permission to publish the text of MSS in their possession, the editor wishes to thank the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the Bodleian Library Oxford University; the British Library; Boston Public Library; the Syndics of Cambridge University Library; the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge; Haverford College, Connecticut; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the Hornby Library, Liverpool Libraries and Information Services; the Houghton Library, Harvard University; the John Rylands Library, Manchester; the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas; Luton Museum (Bedfordshire County Council); Massachusetts Historical Society; McGill University Library; the National Library of Scotland; the Newberry Library, Chicago; the New York Public Library (Pforzheimer Collections); the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; the Public Record Offices of Bedford, Suffolk (Bury St Edmunds) and Northumberland, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne; the Trustees of the William Salt Library, Stafford, the Wisbech and Fenland Museum; the University of Virginia Library.
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“After 20 or 30 years service as Quarter Master, one of the most comfortable stations an old sailor can fill, when eye sight &
hearing fail, he gets removed from the Conn
No letter from the Long Man of the Row, which as I requested an
answer, does not look well for the translation, – that is, it shows no eagerness for it.
Thank you for the extract. As for the Carpet it would be folly not to give the additional sixpence, when the Manufacturer lays so much stress upon it. so pray order the six shilling thread.
I have flourished in parcels since you left us, & I have had a grand arrival to night. Since you left us also,
there has been a great alarm in Keswick. “Ugly fellows” as old Mr Bedford always calls them have been seen there, who frightend the whole town men
women & children & not, it seems, without reason; for the ‘ugly ones’ decamped without beat of drum when they perceived
themselves to be suspected. – & the next night poor Shelley got knocked
down as he was coming out of his own door.xxxx solace myself with a solo upon this instrument by day, judge you Capt
Southey, who know something of my musical propensities.
This is a dreadful story of the St George!
Rickman has a son & heir,x the attention of the growels is over –
Love to Sarah – Beauty Doctor told an ugly story of her which I hope your note does not confirm