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Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. d. 47. ALS; 3p. . Not previously published.
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The mystery concerning the Peninsular War is explained at last.
He says more to the same purport which need not be transcribed. The matter is now plain, – he has been ashamed to
xxy say that he did not mean to keep his promise, knowing in how uncomfortable a situation it would place me, – & so
delayed it till it could be delayed no longer. – I can do no more, & am very sorry that the matter ends thus, & that your
wishes & mine should thus be thwarted. Tell Wm Nicol this. – Who is printing it I do not yet know, – the proofs
came under an Admiralty frank, & for want of any other direction I must send them back thro the same channel.
If it had not been for the vexation which thus accompanied it, the arrival of these first proofs would have been the
most chearing event of this Christmas. When I am in so far in printers ink, the stimulus to go on is never
wanting; – & the prospect of three volumes in which I am now fairly embarked has also the <has upon me> an encouraging
& exhilarating effect.
The same post which brought the historical proofs, brought also the last & larger portion of the paper concerning
the S.S.boot,
My next proof will probably be of the Vision,
God bless you. The mountains will probably be perrywigged when I rise tomorrow, for it is just now as cold as
de-Kiggle, as windy as de-Wiggle, & as cloudy as de-Cliggle. – I have had a letter from the Czar.