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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, KESMG 1996.5.102. ALS; 4p. . Not previously published.
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About the 10 th of August I expect to meet Rickman in Edinburgh,
Tom has been about ten weeks in Newlands, & had all the help that I could muster to bring him there. The outlay of his
removal – in spite of that assistance, will keep him for some time in low water, – & he has no spring tide to look for at any time,
which you & I, I trust, both have. However he grows fat & so does his
wife, & the children are of the thriving sort, x <xxx> converting prodigious quantities of milk
& flour into flesh blood & bone with the greatest ease & x expedition.
My Constable has been hard put to it to keep up with me lately.the my only
capital. I got however 100 £ out of the review during that time, – for the paper upon copyright, – & one upon the Catacombs which
appears in the next number,history
volume, of which the 101 st page is now upon my desk.
I suspect the box contains a piece of plate, – send it therefore by the mail from the Bull & Mouth, & insure it for £15 at the office as you did the forks, – or for more as you may guess by the weight.
You & I do not differ about the Bullion question.xxx xx paper <money> the medium by which that barter is carried on, not the standard by which either commodity is
measured. It does not appear that the Bank ever abused its power by issuing too much paper. The country Bankers often did, to the great
injury of those who took their notes – I pointed out that evil, in the QR.xxxx xxxxxx xxx xxxxx xxx but the Goose was frightened as soon as the Country Bankers
cried boh to him.can ever is likely to arise from this absurd attempt to regulate the affairs of commerce by a theoretical
notion about a standard of value, – has already taken place, in the stagnation & embarrassment occasioned by alarm &
uncertainty during the discussion. Of course the evil is only for a time. What vexed me most was to see Peele give such proof either of a time-serving temper, or a feeble judgement;
My Scotch tour will supply garnish for Espriella & when I am thus provided I shall not be long in putting together
the numerous materials which I have collected.
At present God be thanked we all are all going on well. Cuthbert grows, & is as strong & lively as could be wished. Compared with
the common run of children he is large, – but three <four> of his Newlands-cousins are young Ogres, – absolute
Killcrops.