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Mr Wilson and I are accommodated very much to our satisfaction
in every respect: but our goods and chattels are not yet
arrived. The grounds about the Abbey offered us very pleasant walks.
The ruins are much more entire than we expected to find them: they
forma scene truly antique and picturesque, Sr Whistler's territories are
of more use to us in pursuit of pleasure, than to the owners: who
neither of them ever stir out of the house.
July 11th
You will observe, Sir, by the date in the first page of this
letter how long ago it was begun. I should have sent it off sooner
but for your Oxford excursion which I heard of from Sam ten
days ago or thereabouts. I hope you and my Mother have found
it an agreable one: one day at least I can answer for; I mean
the 5th. I had the pleasure or reading in our paper the name of
my friends Charles in the account of the celebrity of that day.
I wonder whether all this while you have had any summer: in
our parts at Battle we have had nothing like it. Not a sun
believe, since we have been here without rain: we have re
the face of the Sun.
Our baggage came safe from Hastings a few days after that
on which I began to write. We have a comfortable room to study
in nearly as large as mine at Lincoln's Inn. Mr and Mrs Wise are so obliging as to send the whole tribe of children of
all ages to school that we may be free from interruption. Mrs
Wise has a pretty little collection of books of entertainment which
seduce Mr Wilson sometimes and now and then me to play false
to old Grim-gritter.
I imagine you will be returned before this reaches London:
I though it needless to send it off sooner; as it might chance to travel
up and down the country, and cost more than it is worth. — My
best respects wait upon my Mother. Love to Gar and Charles, who
by this time, I suppose, has joined you. I hope you well indulge
me now and then with the satisfaction of hearing of all your healths; together with
any little anecdotes the metropolis may afford: a welcome present to us in our sequester'd
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