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British Library, Add MS 30927. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I go to London on May day, which happens on a Wednesday. if it will be in time, your journals had better be carried to
London by me, than sent to Portsmouth where there is a possibility of their being lost. we shall, you see, meet in London. I have the
whole month of May to pass there or in its neighbourhood, circumstances will determine whether I shall be
with remain the whole of that time in London or pass one fortnight at Cambridge with Lloyd,or tell me all about this –
that is as much as you know about it.
I this day send off two Letters
My mother has is at Bristol, where she has
been now a month – because Miss Tyler has quarrelled with her Maid
Since the abatement of the cold I have found myself much better. & tho still indisposed complain more of the interruption to all my business by a daily walk to town, than of any thing else.
When we quit this house I go to the sea somewhere, bathing is recommended both to me & Edith, & as my pleasurable sensations as Lloyd would say, are always doubled when I am near the shore. the place which at present
seems from what I hear to suit me is Minehead. I am told it is cheap & understand the channel shores in its neighbourhood to be
uncommonly wild & beautiful. in that case our way will lie thro Taunton, but I believe my only visit there, should be as may
perhaps be the case, sleep there one night, will be to Dr Toulminin the in that retirement, when Madoc will be off my hands.
Harrys direction is with the Rev. Mr Maurice. Normanstone. Lowestoff. Suffolk.
I have a coloured print which I wish you to see – the Destruction of the Spanish Armada is the subject
Let me know about your journals.
Ediths love.
Edith & I are botanizing & looking with some impatience for the primroses.