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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 have sometimes been inclined to fancy, when taking perhaps a flattering view of my own temper of mind, that if our
genealogy could be were revealed it would lead us back to the land of Uz, & to the house of Job.Putting my old friend Scratch out of the question this perhaps was rather <hasty> on your part, – for putting my
old friend ScratchI
would I apparent <should have supposed thought> that a manxxxxxx Friday. Our
ancestor in Uz would under such circumstances have forgiven a greater mistake.
It so happened th however that after having written to me he perceived that he had made a blunder, which
could not have been made if his mind had not been in a xxxx <so> disturbed a state. The last ode was which
reached him on the Friday, was consequently sent to Pople. all possible dispatch
was used, the ode was published on the Tuesday, & according to an arrangement between Croker & Longman, sent after
the former to Portsmouth, there to be by him presented to the beöded personages.
And now after your late fit of bile I recommend you by all means to take a dose of Cheltenham salts.
I received my parcel with the Odes on Sunday, – the it had been sent off on the Wednesday. A note in it
informed me that in order for the sake if despatch only 250 had been thrown off, & requested corrections by return of
post. There were <are> two material misprints making a wrong sense which is worse than nonsense. p 7. to the sea instead of the sun & p 18 – the breach of Tarragona instead of
the beach. I had made also an unfor addition in p. 8 which was unluckily too late. after
I suppose Croker made out the titles of the Beöded in full
form, for I did not, & that he entitled the odes congratulatory. And now you know as much about them as I do: – having I
suppos dare say received your parcel as soon as I did mine.
I think Lord Cochranes sentence too severe.xx how easily it may be obtained. As for the Princess
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