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British Library, Add MS 47890. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I write this letter in the hope that it may reach you before Losh
visits Bristol – taking it for granted that he will call upon you. should it so prove, will you ask him in my name, if he could give
William Taylor a letter of introduction to Benjamin Constant?
Our long meditated visit to Theobolds
Biggs is setting the first sheet of Chatterton.
Edith continues to mend. xxx I spoke of lodging
near you instead of being with you, because we are no longer unincumbered. We have a servant – & we have
also Mrs Lovell. this makes all visiting quite out of the question. if we can
lodge Mrs L & Bella
Old Lovell now consents to allow twenty pounds for Roberts support for one year – till he can (if he can) be got into Christs Hospital.
Edith mends – but she is in a strange state of health.
Tonight I have the two greatest Welshmen coming to give me some remarks on my Welsh manners in Madoc. Owen, & Edward Williams the Welsh Bard.troub effort of invention. However
something will grow in a fallow fields, & I feel certain sprouts are about to vegetate. the spirit is beginning to move me – &
I suppose ere long I shall fall in good earnest to work & gallop thro a few more books of Kehama.
My letter at last is gone to King. I have begged him to make a
drawing for the vignette to one of the volumes, of the inside of the room wherein the Rowleyan Manuscripts are said to have been
found.
Carlisle will think of your brother.
Burnett is about to leave Lord Stanhope who has very handsomely given him a
years salary.
I am daily expecting money to remit to you – my Uncle has not written to me lately. I doubt whether he will [MS obscured] Portugal after all – & wonder whether the old saddles & hal[MS obscured] to be sent back again. the old guns are valuable one.
Mrs Tyler has written to Harry to demand from me five tablespoons – a piece of cambric designed for stocks for my Uncle – & the money for produced by the sale of
the furniture in Westgate Buildings.almost out of her senses. I have directed Harry to
reply that she must apply immediately to me if she wants any thing answered. that Edith will make my Uncle’s stocks
– & that the less she says of money matters the better for her own credit.
Our love to Mrs Danvers. we shall hope to see her in May.
N.B. Keep a hedge-hog in your garden to eat the grubs.