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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, WC 177. ALS; 4p. . Not previously published.
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One copy of the Grandes de Portugal, – & with ms additions,
Seabras book
Murray sent me down Dallas’s book with a reply
to it under the title of a History of the Jesuits.
Constablethxx <put> this into the Q. R. which
would require no other alteration than that of a head piece & a finale; – I should get 100 £ for it, – which
will be more than I shall get for the whole volume for two or three years, – & half as much (perhaps more)
than <as> I shall ever get for it, – perhaps more. But tho this is a temptation to one whose ways &
means are in no better a state than mine, it would injure a work on which I may be well content to rest for
reputation, if I should never compleat any of my other meditated histories.
What Murray can Murdoch
They go on tolerably well in my Ladys
chamber. The Dutch have a comical name for godfathers & godmothers, – they call them Peters & Meters. By
the joint desire of Wynn & Bedford who are the Peters on this occasion the name of Charles
is to be prefixed to Cuthbert, – but he will be called Cuthbert. – Sir G. Beaumont offered himself, – I
have had a very kind note of congratulation from Lord Kenyon,
whom I never saw but once, but who sends me civil messages thro Dr Bell.
Have you been to see the German Horse?they <it> answers shall
certainly send one down to Keswick, & indeed if I had but a
companion I could find in my heart to travel xxx back upon it
Love to my Aunt. God bless you