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The waggon by which I used to send my packages from London, went, & I suppose continues to go, from the Bull & Mouth. My letter-direction is sufficient, – Keswick – Cumberland. I shall have great interest in perusing Mr Walpoles correspondence, & expect to
derive from it an information not to be obtained from any other source.
I returned home on Saturday evening the 25th. after an absence of twelve days, & a round of 300
miles, of which rather more than 200 were performed on foot. My brother Henry is at length determined upon trying his fortune at <in> London, at the West end of the town, an
adventure of the most tempting kind, & for which he is every way qualified, – except so far as regards the means of supporting two
or three years of non-employment. Sealey
For myself I am returned to a renewal of labour, which must delay my intended visit to Streatham & its vicinity. I found letters on my return stating that it was of the greatest
importance to the success of the Register,pen affairs of the peninsula. You will see that I was obliged to defer the affairs of Spanish & South America
till the ensuing year.
We are suffering much inconvenience from the failure of the Workington Bank
I found another piece of intelligence on my return of a pleasanter nature. The second edition of Kehamaxxx labour which for many years has been almost unproductive. The sale of Kehama I attribute not to any merit of its own,
but to Scotts account of it in the Quarterly,
I trouble you with the inclosed letter of thanks for Anchietas Grammar & the Valeroso Lucideno,from at Rio Janeiro, – an order which in the present state of Brazilian literature may safely be
given. There are a number of political brochures noticed in the Correio Braziliense& – Jaboatam’s Orbe x Serafico Novo Brazilico,
I am very anxious to see my Brazilwh for which I, & I alone, am fitted, – to <that it
may> employ me upon what fifty or five-hundred others could do if not equally, at least sufficiently well.