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Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 25. Not previously published.
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You will certainly see me in July, if I am alive & well & no unforeseen obstacle arise. And I think by the
middle of the month at latest. It would have been sooner, if my whole house were not disorganized in a mournful way. Ediths brother is dying here: He came down at Xmas to pass a few weeks, broke a blood
vessel shortly after his arrival, & is now in the last stage of atrophy, produced by a complication of hepatic & pulmonary
diseases. For the last week Edmondson has said that his death might be hourly
expected, – still he is alive, & God knows how long he may linger on.which about the house, & the dislocation of hours, habits & employments which extends to every member of it,
– I should neither be able to find place or composure for regular & urg business, however urgent.
I will bring the stag’s-horn.
Day after day I expect in vain a promised letter from the Shuffler. The only chance which I have of not being cheated, is this, that the B’s. will look to gain more by printing my
history & getting a share in it, than by playing me a trick now. James B.
has requested to print it, in a letter which as yet I have not yet answered, – & indeed this is not my busi
this rests with Murray & not with me. It is settled that I write the History of
the Peninsular War, recasting what is in the Register:am in shall be in town.
Meantime I get no money from this fellow. Send me therefore the amount of my next quarter,& we out of the unborn stock, & replace it when payment is made at your shop.
The best news I can give you de me ipso
xxxxxx symptoms that my name is acquiring a savoury odour.
This unaccountable armistice!
Tell Blanco that if it had not been for this death in the house, which I have long foreseen, I should have pressed him to have been here at this time: – but that I hope & trust he will make his visit in the autumn, – perhaps we may travel together.