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your calculation. I should hope by the latter end
of April it may come to hand.
This is better than writing to your Evelyns
at Hamburgh. As for French it is in vain
to think of it as no opportunity offers. Had I
£150 to tempt De Lohne with it might possibly
be done.
May. About the beginning of July I think
it was, or a little later, I took the opportunity
of Poli's returning through Holland and charged
him with a letter to Strachan and one to May.
What had I to do you will say to write to
May? Why perhaps it was a of impertinence,
and I had as good have
left it alone. However the fact is I did
write to him sending him at the same time
about as many sheets of Introd. (which I
then thought would finished) as I sent
to you, as . To account for
it I told him to the sentiments
of respect and admiration which you had inspired
me with for him or something of that
sort. I quoted some extracts from the letters
in which you speak handsomely of them,
and told him that all this if it answered no
other purpose might at least serve to shew
then that their favours not thrown
away upon an ungrateful soil. I believe
I mentioned word or two about the
lad there, saying that if any hints of mine
could be of any use I should be very
happy to communicate them. Seeing nothing
come of all this fine letter, not the least notice
taken of it, I was a little vext with
myself as you may imagine for having
wrote it: thinking it impertinent, officious
& so forth. On Coming to town however what
should I see upon the window seat in the
passage but a bit of a Card with "Mr May,
Dyer's
Dyer's Buildings Holborn upon it. Well and
so, I have been to Dyer's buildings this
individual morning, and who should it be but
one of your May's (not him whom I write
to) who has had a house there for years.
Dyers buildings is just by, between Cursitor
Street and Castle Yards. When I called it was
about a 1/4 after 2, and they being early folks,
the cloth was already laid for dinner. A little
neat house: no servant appeared but a maid.
We had a little chit-chat, and before the
was thoroughly broke, in came Mrs May:
now you will know who which of them it is by that. She
seemed a mighty pleasant good sort of woman.
Fearful of deranging them, I made haste to
take my leave, putting in a claim of renewing
my visit. They asked me in a plain
good humoured way to stay dinner, just
if they would really have been well pleased
that I should. They were going on
the invitation, but as I had not yet
Q.S.P. and besides that had occasion to see
Schiller again, I cut the matter short and
marched off.
There now you have the histories of
may and Schiller: and it was owing to their
not being consummated that I was forced to
fill up my paper in one part with writing
about Carew's & Coxes.
Swed. is removed from Gloucester Street
to No 32 Newman Street Oxford Road: so that we
shall not see one another very often.
Seeing that my scolding letter of the 6th Aug.
is come to hand, how vex'd I am that I have
been plaguing you with a repetition of it as mentioned
in the first page after receipt of yours
from Mittau. I directed to you at Shairpe's
Here it is two months you will be pleased to observe
since I reced
your short scrap, and all this
while no ostens. letter ( as promised ) for Ld L. And
what am I to do with the man, I wonder ? Am I
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