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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, KESMG 1995.5.95. ALS; 3p. . Not previously published.
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I trouble you with a parcel, – for which Bedford will
pay the cost when you settle your accounts with him, he being my Chancellor of the Exchequer. It contains some books lent me by Gooden,xxx tho very probably it may not be called for
during my life.
My Uncle’s copies,
I follow your directions, – but expect more good from the excitement of a journey,
– A sense of aching in the back, – chiefly down the back bone, with a sense of weakness throughout the whole body (not the limbs.) – The pain is not felt in bed, nor in a recumbent posture, nor in walking. But after having
sate for a long time then it is perceived for a short time either in walking or in rest.
When she was about 12 the right side of the ribs on the back was discovered to be somewhat larger than the left, &
she used a reclining board two hours in the day for two years, & afterwards one hour x a day. The back bones appears
somewhat curved, – this however xx <would> not be regarded of it were not for the pain, which has grown gradually
worse for the last 7 or 8 months. The general health tolerable, – with a little occasional languor – she can walk 7 or 8 <miles a day>
(say 10 or 12, say I) without apparent fatigue.
All that need be added is that the pain, – which now compels her almost every day to go to bed earlier than she would
otherwise do cannot is not connected with any change in her system, – that having taken place about two years ago.
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Wynn tells me that the Don Juan which Murray received & suppressed was prefaced with a very hostile dedication to me.have the xxx power of xxxxx xxxxx any person who am perfectly able to
make my own cause good against any body with a cloven foot,
I expect to be in Edinburgh about the 12 of August.