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lest Leonardi should have written applied to the same
Bookseller. This much however I knew & could
therefore venture to assure him, that Leonardi's bookseller
was not his. He did not positively
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3 o'clock
This instant comes your letter dated Chernobyl.
I shall say no more about it till I
have finished my present subject. That from
Pullawa I have never received.
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say he should make the proposal to his bookseller,
but asked leave to call for the other
sheets: and in that state of uncertainty I quitted
him. I did not care to ask whether he intended
to write, for fear of shewing too much eagerness.
What a blockhead I am drawling through
all these minute details about my management?
What are they all to you exclusive of the event?
The event is that he wrote immediately to his
bookseller: the very next post. If by possibility
the Bookseller should refuse I must then propose
terms to him myself to make up what
deficiency there may be in point of inducement:
such as to take off all that remains of a certain
number of copies at the end of a certain time
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Q.S.P. has been in a bad state of health:
a journey to Bath has set him up again:
He is now about returning.
Oct.r 27. 1780.
A good decent interval of about two months
and two days! and in the mean time I have reced
a a letter from Ple which I answer'd, (about 3 weeks
or a month ago ) and your note from Mittau which
I proceed to answer now. The second letter you mention
to have written from Czernobyl never came:
here then are two that have miscarried: think
what a gap this must leave in your history,
and what a loss I must be at to know what
you have been about! You must give us some
idea of what you have been doing at ,
and some account of your reception at your
hospitable friends.
You tell me of my letters having been got
into Shairpe's hands & sent rambling up and down
the country, where possibly they may be lost. This the
circumstance has been taken in to consideration by Q.S.P.
and
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and it is by his orders that I have the honour of
writing to you at present. I am returning setting down again therefore
like a dog to his vomit to give you a recapitulation
of the most essential parts of the contents
of these possibly-miscarried letters. It is a little
less bad than being hanged, and that is all.
Capital — none to be had: it vexes me "even like
"a thing that is raw, " to think of the disappointment
you must feel from the miscarriage of a project
which you seem to have built so much upon:
yet that vexation is velvet to the idea of
your the want of judgement which to my eyes
you have betrayed on that occasion : to think
that such a man as Q.S.P. would encumber
his estate and hazard the whole of which he
has to spare for both of us together, upon the
credit of a man quelemque whom he never
saw. saw; and whose character in pecuniary matters he could not
from report as he could that of a Merchant,
If S.B. is so much out in his expectations
concerning the conduct of a man he has been
living all his life with, how much less likely is
he to right in the expectations he may be led
to form concerning that of strangers? This is a
damned sort of a syllogism which I cannot
get over and which has been rambling in
my gizzard for these two or three or four months
past. But a truce for that subject.
being At Hamburgh being disappointed at
different times of the passage he expected by sea
he grows impatient, and upon good or bad
grounds changes his plan and at a great
& unlooked for expence goes by land: it happens
however that Buchati, notwithstanding all
his disasters gets to Dantzick not two days after
S.B. has left it. At. M. a great deal of time
and no inconsiderable sum of money is expended
after it is ascertained that nothing can be done
there. Thompson away goes he to another place
many hundred miles off, without any reason
that he can assign though so much pressed
for it, and without knowing a creature there
and without a single recommendation in his pocket.
A chance which he could have had no right
to reckon upon throws into his arms a valuable
friend: and at last when all the money he had
any
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