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Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 26. ALS; 4p. . Not previously published.
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My good Aunt Mary here (who has as much genuine kindness &
natural affection, as would have made both her unnatural brothers
When the Vision is printed I pray you to exercise your taste as to the binding the Kings copy, – for whether you let the Dedication stand or not, a copy of course he
must have.for the xxxxx fxx the xxxxx for my Mistress, precisely like that for my
Master.
You tremble for the experiment; so do not I, tho I expect the utmost rancour of hostility & hatred. The Odes are
not annexed,fat, has acquired a substantive bulk, & therefore it would be throwing away these to
insert them. They would attract no notice, but be fairly overlaid by the Vision. I keep them therefore for the Colloquies.
Westall is making the drawings & plates for Parrys
Voyage.
Have you received the Carmina?xx non-arrival of my own copies makes me begin to apprehend that the note in which I ordered yours & certain others
to be sent, may not have reached its destination.
The thermometer is 18 degrees lower than it was yesterday. Reading the story of Nessus in Ovid this morningobv expressed her surprize at finding that he wore
cloathes & said how it would have puzzled her to make a shirt for a centaur. I question if that difficulty has occurred to any
of the Commentators.
Wynn is at this moment in Pandæmonium.