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Bodleian Library, MS Don. d. 3. Not previously published.
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It is fortunate that the Dutchmen proved beyond the skill of the bookbinder, for the set turns out to be
imperfect.th vol. is
wanting, & the thirteenth being in two parts (or what Cobbett would call a
double-volume) makes up the number. – I make no doubt but that the bookseller will readily exchange it. Tell the circumstances &
remind them when & by whom the book was bought, & when they promise to exchange it – I will send it back by waggon, &
of course the carriage <of course> must be at my loss – & I will chuse from their catalogue, as soon as I can get it
other books to the same – or a greater amount.
I desired Bedford to give you the 12 & 13th book of Rodericks,
One of our servants has a cough which I am certain must be the tussis ferina, or second hooping
cough. For she has had the hooping cough; this certainly is not infectious, & she hoops with it so as to disturb the whole house.
Have you ever met with a case of this most rightly – named disorder? Henry
Bedford has had it. And do you know any remedy for it, besides the slow one of patience, or the, in this case, impracticable
one of change of air? It is curious that the disease should be undistinguishable from hooping cough by any other circumstances than its
not being infectious, – which means I suppose in other words that xxx the hooping cough in the very rare instances of its
recurrence is always mitigated in this degree, – not to the patient, but to – the more remarkable because the patient seems
to suffer as much.
I am very ill pleased at the aspect of public affairs. A moving mind is equally wanted at home & abroad. It is
disheartening to see that the experience not only of former times, but <even> of their own is lost upon our statesmen. They
themselves made the peace of Amiens, & they have the execrable example of the peace of Utrecht before them, & yet we are likely
to have the folly of the one & the sin of the other united in a third peace which will be more injurious to Europe than any before
it.
Standert has never answered the letter in which I asked him for his
case.xxx I if I remember rightly states that his father was recovered by its use.the Alva, the famous & bloody Alva; – the last
remedy to which he had recourse in a decline induced more by vexation than any other cause was a womans breast.
Dr Sayers should review the Synonimes,g
desultory comment which would do for other reviews but does not accord with the plan of the Quarterly.
How is Mr Gonne going on? – Has the Marquis had his Wedding Cake
I am getting on with my Brazilsubjects on
projected poems on which to begin when Rodericmetre verse.