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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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Had you complained that Madoc was too expensive I should readily have agreed with you – or that it was too dear – I
should have said it seems so – but the price is likely to be a fair one – because tho I objected to it, the publishers have persisted
in affixing it.verses in one line – you must be contented with one. To have used a larger type, as Ballantyne advised, would indeed
have narrowed the margin at the expence of about ten sheets of paper – i – e – 7/6 more in the price of the book. As for blank paper
there is but one blank page in the whole volume – which is between the first & second part of the Notes – & which I did not
order the Printer to alter – because it would have delayed occasioned a delay of two or three days. That the
blank on the page where a section concludes should sometimes be larger than is sightly is a thing of mere accident; to have begun the
next section on the same page would sometimes have produced a greater deformity, would certainly have made the volume far less
beautiful & less handsome, – & could not on the most liberal computation have diminished its price more than fourteen pence. I
ordered 30 lines in a page – it did not suit Ballantynes types & he would
only promise 24 – at the same time recommending 20 & the same type as Scotts Lay of the Last Minstrel.counts as P–185–6.
Never mind the books as you have them not.
Your route had best be thus – from Liverpool in the Long Coach to Lancaster – from thence by stage over the sands to Ulverstone. if you are lucky you may effect this the same day that you leave Liverpool. See Furness Abbey & come on by way of Conistone Lake to Ambleside which is at the head of Winandermere. I know not the distances here – but know that this is the best possible route for seeing things in the best possible way. Ambleside is 16 miles from hence. If I knew when to expect you there, which cannot well be because of the uncertainty of crossing the sands I would meet you at Grasmere. If the inn at Ambleside be full – get on to Grasmere – which is 3 miles – where there is a little inn sufficiently comfortable – & call at Wordsworths to show you the way, – very probably I shall be there on the look out for you. from Grasmere to Keswick is a magnificent walk of 13 miles.
I knew not till now that Sam Reid had been at Estlins. his scheme seems promising – I saw Carpenter
Longman & Rees are always
blundering. the Cyclopædias
Will you laugh if I say that your Aunts travels would be useful to me? pray bring them – they will furnish a curious
account of English manners a century ago, which any Spaniard may collect in the real way – from a MS.S. in the family of one of his
friends.
The Capt. never gave me a letter about the wine – which was lying at Liverpool.
The Edithling is ailing with her teeth – but we are not
alarmed – as there are none but ordinary symptoms – Wordsworths little
girl
Poor Tom is always in the way of danger – just got the yellow fever
out of the ship & now the French are come!
Remember me to your brother Dan – to Rex – Hort