“Charles and Hazlitt are going to Sadler’s Wells, and I am amusing myself in their absence with reading a manuscript of Hazlitt’s, but have laid it down to write a few lines to tell you how we are going on. Charles has begged a month’s holiday, of which this is the first day, and they are all to be spent at home. We thank you for your kind invitations, and are half inclined to come down to you; but after mature deliberation, and many wise consultations, such as you know we often hold, we came to the resolution of staying quietly at home. . . . .
“The reason I have not written so long is that I worked and worked in hopes to get through my task before the holidays began; but at last I was not able,
* His house, No. 109, formed part of old Tavistock House: it has been long demolished. |
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“I am sorry you are altogether so uncomfortable. I shall be glad to hear you are settled at Salisbury; that must be better than living in a lone house companionless, as you are. . . . .
“Let me hear from you soon. . . Charles’s love, and our best wishes that all your little busy affairs may come to a prosperous conclusion.
