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Bodleian Library, MS Don. d. 4. ALS; 3p. . Not previously published.
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I learn from Henry Robinson that Elton Hamond is the person from whom I
received two very curious letters in the month of February last, & that pursuant
to the intention which he then expressed, he has placed his papers at my disposal. As
yet I have receivd no communication from his family upon this melancholy
subject.
My course of reading, aided too by some observations for which at
different times I have had sufficient opportunity, have has made me more
conversant than most men with the morbid anatomy of the human mind. – From some thing
which Robinson says it
appears that my second & last letter to himthem him for such a change.
I had a letter from Croker the other day to say that Lord
Bathurst, supposing I had a son growing up, had called upon him to offer me a
writership for him.
How is your nursery going on? Cuthbert has been very ill with one of those bilious attacks to which all my children have been liable in infancy. He is now quite well, tho he has not yet recovered his loss of flesh. – A more intelligent little creature never was seen. He is now eleven months old, & has just got his four first teeth.
I hear that great reformer whom I should call an Ass if his own name
of Jeremy Bentham did not at once convey the idea of all that is assinine, calls me
St Southey, & classes me with St
Wilberforce. –