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Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 23. Not previously published.
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Will you be good enough to buy for me the two three following books at Whites — Fleet
Street.
you or your brother have my direction — & if you will send them by the Poole Mail which goes from the Bell & Crown — Holborn — near Grays Inn — they will reach me safely. & you & your brother may write by the parcel. when the Member for Old Sarum takes his seat we shall a different mode of franking.
It is no small proof of self denial Grosvenor that I
am now writing to you. I received yesterday Chapelains Pucelle from John May — &
have as yet read only five books of the twelve. I will not make any remarks upon it. I shall draw out such an account of it as I have
done of La Hermosura de Angelicax notes. an inexcusable fault.
I called on the old Lady Strathmore
I slept little in the Mail — tis too rough a cradle to be rocked in. my walk from Ringwood was 8 miles — a long way for one with stiff knees swoln feet & blistered heels. every thing here is very quiet — I am very happy — & want only time. if I could but study Law while I am asleep now — oh for some blessed Mail Coach way of travelling that blackguard road! — however I know something about it now — & perhaps ten years hence Grosvenor — we may throw some little light upon the Law. — you know how we will officiate in our robes at the sacrifice — & then burn them too.
Still foul weather — I love England daily less & less. Eutopia must have a better climate Grosvenor — & we must drink Claret from our own vineyards in our own orange gardens. but when! —
I thought to have written to Horace this morning but Biddlecombe has been with me thi delayed
yours & left no time. I shall write to him tomorrow. tell him this & tell him likewise to write that his letter may come with
the books.
Danvers has seen Kosciusko.& loth to
part with them pressing them by the hand with no common earnestness. you know not how I envy them this.
God bless you Grosvenor.