John Calvert asks an introduction from me, – which there was little occasion of asking. – He is quite ignorant what steps must be taken by a youth who wishes to obtain a commission in Deaths body-guard.

I have had no return of hemorrhage

– & am in other respects better. So much indeed does the local relaxation depend upon the general state of the body – that I went up Helvellin last week without the slightest inconvenience, – riding indeed in a cart to Dunmailrase, & from Wytheburn back but being between four & five hours on the mountain. Yet without any other perceptible difference, at other times a walk of a mile makes me feel where my weakness lies. However I take your tonics – eat – drink – walk, & rub down in dressing like a horse.

The Printer

makes little speed with my history,

– & I am very poetical at present

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