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Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. d. 47. ALS; 3p. . Not previously published.
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Yesterday I received a note from Murray, with a proof of the first part of
Marlboroughs Life.the Megisteros on this occasion,
all is well. He took full time to deliberate, & would not be very well pleased if
he knew how decidedly I should have acted, if he had come to a different
determination. It is best as it is, & I am very glad that I asserted my proper
claims; – independent of what is due to myself, the sum of which he would have cut me
short will pay my butchers bill. – When it became evident from lapse of time that he
was deliberating how to act I laid Marlborough aside; – now I have resumed it, &
must stick to it till it is done, which will be in a week or ten days.
Cuthbert
thank God has almost recovered, – he is much reduced, – we had an anxious eight days
with him, – the longest & severest illness he had ever endured.
I have had a letter from Croker which a good deal surprized me.
Lord Bathurst supposing that I had a son growing up, called upon him to offer me a
writership.xx xxxx to be an expression of good will
towards me for having deserved well in literature. If it please God I shall deserve
better before this year is out. The life of Wesleywill <give the title of>
‘Sir Thomas More’
Do you know that Jeremy Bentham calls me Saint Southey in his
book?which I had annexed to his philosph of
metaphysico-politico-critico-patriotico-phoolo – which I had affixed to his
philosophy!