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National Library of Scotland, MS 42552. ALS; 2p. . Not previously published.
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Lord B’s is a very able book, – every way honourable to him. – I will make my notes from it without delay, lest you
should reclaim it, & any change of mind in the author prevent its publication.
You will be glad to hear that I have finished the Hist. of Brazil, & sent off the last part of the MS.now there is
no part of the world of which so & I have embodied in it more facts relating to the aboriginal inhabitants, more details
of the early history <transactions> & progressive improvement of the Brazilians, – than are to be found in the history
of any other country. I know how remote the subject is, & how little interest it will promise to the great mass of the public. And
I expect from it neither popularity nor profit in my own time. But it must make its way slowly & surely, & become a standard
book (setting all other merits aside, whatever they may be) for the body of facts which are to be found there, & there only.
And now the Q.R. is the only thing which will impede the progress of the Peninsular War, – for what I have
to yet to do with the Life of Wesley is scarcely to be taken into the account.
When I have the first portion of the War ready, may I send it thro the Admiralty?