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These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Since Wednesday last I had been looking with a good deal of anxiety for news of you. This is no very p
pleasing letter that has arrived, – it is however a good thing that you are at your journeys end, & I think the Doctors will not
insist upon your late mode of living when they see its affects.
Douglasxxx winning manners, as indeed we all were.
Tom & his wife departed this morning for Durham, having spent the last fortnight with us. She wins upon one very much, – & I was sorry to part with her. Tom I miss very much. I am now left wholly to myself – & must begin my usual hybernation.
I reckoned upon assets in your hands, & have told Rickman that
you will pay him for my stock of shoes, & Wynn that you will settle
t with him for some books from a Catalogue, of which he sent me two sheets, & received in return a commission for
some of the articles.they he may not delay it till they slip thro his fingers, but there was no clue to the booksellers
name & I had no other means of sending for them. As you have sent the half bills, these things with the accommodation for the
humdurgeon &c must stand over for the next Exchequer account.
Keswick is in a great ferment in consequence of the failure of one of the Workington
Banks.
The great coat made his appearance before the letter from Manchester & I would have given a good deal to have
been extracted some account of his travels from him. – Farewell. The Moon is set – the wind is playing a dismal
xxx duet with the rain, & I who have the happiest spirits in the world, have not am a little below par in
them at present. The sight of a chaise driving from the door, is a sedative for the day. – Remember me to your father & mother & the Master
of the Rolls & tell me better news of yourself
We have never received a line from Coleridge since he
went away.