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Huntington Library, RS 392. ALS; 3p. . Not previously published.
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It is not likely that I shall be in town before the meeting of Parlt.
We have had death in the house. Poor Good old Mrs Wilson is gone, in her 78th year,
struck down by a fit which left her deaf, blind & senseless to all appearance – in which state she continued
till the eighth day, with no other sustenance than that of having her la a spoonful of tea from time to
time. Of her little money she has left these children five pounds each, which I shall take care to embody for each
of them in some tangible memorial of their good old friend
Another cause which has delayed my movements is that I must not leave home till I have corrected
the last proofs of Wesley,r Telford, – he will
be reminded by it of his old friend Benjamin Abbott,
I shall take advantage of your restored faculty to send up a portion of the corrected vol. of
Brazil to the press, in a day or two.
Curwen has ousted Lord Morpethknow what the issue must be, without as they have only to
the number of their former voters, that of the new freeholders whom they have created for the purpose. Brougham who denies that he abused me upon the hustings at
the last election, has been complimenting me there now, for the purpose I suppose of making me credit, or seem to
credit a denial which I know to be false.
Curwen being returned for the county, young Graham will come in for Carlisle, as the hero of
those very radicals who endeavoured at this election to murder his father.of <to> the County, – & there was a supplementary speech
to make all smooth again, that they might not pelt him when he was chaired.
Mrs S. hopes that
certain potted charr have arrived safely in St Stephens Court: – they were judged to be better
in two small pots than in one large one.