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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, KESMG 1996.5.114. ALS; 4p. . Not previously published.
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You have here the whole epistle of P. Martyr, – in perfect form.
There can be no mistake about the date of the letter, because they are arranged chonologically,
in books, a book for each year. – I am not much surprized that men writing professedly upon the subject should not
have found the passage, because they would have been likely to look in P. Martyrs Decadesfxx the sake of general knowledge than with any single & specific purpose.
Robertson includes the book in his list of authorities & ought to have read it.
The hat & the magnifico cap arrived yesterday, – the latter is just made large enough by
taking out the slips meant to cover the ears in travelling. It is much approved of. The hat fits well. Let me know
the cost. – I will trouble you with another commission, larger & rather xx more troublesome, – &
then send you a draft for the whole amount. – It is to buy for me Cobbetts Parliamentary History,
I wish we were near London that Edith
May might have the benefit, or chance, of medical advice, for this cutaneous complaint affection
which continues on her forehead & the back part of her neck & shoulders, but chiefly on the forehead. There
is a great languor in her system. I wrote to you three months ago about an inert tumour on the eyelid, – a wisp in
fact, which after gathering, began to go back, – it is still in the same state, tho a mercurial ointment was
applied for about a fortnight. She is exceedingly pale. And this is not to be accounted for by her time of life,
because she is & has for some time been perfectly regular. When Senhouse comes to Netherhall, I shall take her there for the sake of sea bathing. It makes me anxious, for I am afraid it
will prey upon her spirits xxx to have this sort of disfigurement – at her age, – xx an evil
against which of course I endeavour to do my best.
Love to Louisa
I have had three invitations to Public Dinners in London lately.th sheet of the Pen: War.