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Cornell University Library. ALS; 4p. (c). . Not previously published.
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You will wonder at seeing my letter dated from home, at a time when I hoped to have been thinking of leaving London on
the way to Ludlow. My movements however are only delayed, & the main cause of delay is, I trust, removed. – I have had a long train
of anxieties since Mrs Brownes kind letter arrived. Mrs S. at the time when she should in the ordinary course of
things have been recovering,
During this long interval I have frequently been under too much anxiety to sit calmly at my desk, & thus have lost
time when I could ill afford to lose it. The consequence is that I shall be going for London just when instinct would induce every man,
woman, & child to get out of it, if they had it in their power. My history of Brazil has grown tremendously under my hands. After
having done so much, the desire of leaving nothing undone induced me to wind up the work with a view of the state of the country, as
compleat as I could make it, at the time when the history concludes, which is with the removal of the Court thither in 1808.June 23rd, 1819’ (p. 879). The book did not proceed
chronologically beyond the flight of the Portuguese court to Brazil in 1807–1808.
You will be glad to hear that Hartley has gained a
fellowship at Oriel, – a great instance of good fortune, & a fair proof of good desert. Thus early is his comfortable provision for
life secured, & the door open to situations of honour & emolument.
Mrs Browne is very kind in repeating her
invitation to Edith & Edith I trust will one day have great pleasure in
accepting it. But I must travel alone now, – & I believe she imagines that she could not be spared from home, now there is a baby
in the house. Poor little Cuthbert is I assure you in some danger of
being pulled to pieces by his sisters
My brother the Captain is now quietly settled in Newlands, very much pleased with his removal from the bleak east winds, & the
no-neighbourhood of his last place of abode, – three miles from Brough. Compared to that situation Newlands is in a polished part of
the world, & Keswick a place where every thing may be had that can be wanted.
From <At> Warcop they were literally unable to get a wash-hands bason at
any place nearer than Penrith, – which was nineteen miles off! And yet (it is a curious fact) that every fellow <there> was
a coiner, till the new silver was issued;business practise was to make silver sixpences by hammering them out of
old spoons!
Mrs S. & her sistersrs Browne & your daughters.