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I have the pleasure to inform you that on Wednesday last I was delivered of the H. of Brazil,
& am as well as can be expected.Keswick, June 23d, 1819’ – the Wednesday before this letter was written.
On Wednesday the last portion of MS. was dispatched to Rickman. The press is still four or five sheets astern, & what with
additional notes, index & contents a month or five weeks will elapse before the volume is ready for
deliverance. You will let Longman know, tell me how many copies you want, – I recollect those for the D.
of B.
Two packets of notes go by this nights post. All that was supererogatory I have of course laid
aside because of the size of the volume, – which is such that it must be priced at three guineas. I must soon put
together two more volumes of Omniana
I have now to bring up my Ways & Means, which like those of the nation are somewhat
disordered by the unusual exertions that I have lately made. There will be time to get ready a paper for the QR
before Rickman <can> summons me to Edinburgh,
My household is not as I could wish it to be. Edith still complains of her breast, – & Edith May has shooting pain in the side & back, which tho unconnected with cough or any feverishness, are yet enough to make me apprehensive of ill. – I have ailments myself about which I have written to Harry, – this northern journey is likely to brace me for a time, – such things always have that effect upon my constitution. There is yet a great deal of work before me, which I should like to finish before I go to rest. It would require ten years to do this, – & who can calculate upon ten minutes?
How is your rheumatism? – love to my Aunt & the children –