“My adventures here are such as you might guess,—a mere repetition of visits and dinners. . . . . Yesterday a sumptuous dinner with Joseph Gurney. The two impossibilities for a stranger at Norwich are, to find his way about the city, and to know the names of the Gurneys. They talked about Clarkson, and seemed to fear his book would not sell as he expected it to do; not more than twenty subscribers having been procured among the Quakers there. . . . . To-morrow I sup at Newmarket on my way to London, and sleep in the coach; and there you have my whole history thus far.
“King Arthur
has, I see, been playing his usual editorial tricks with me, and has lopt off a
defence of Bruce against Pinkerton, because he did not like to have Mr.
Pinkerton contradicted; and some remarks upon the infamous
blunders of the printer, because he did not choose to insert anything that was
not agree-
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“I have got a clue to the state of the Catholics here, of which some use may be made by D. Manuel. —— is the head of the sect here, and loves to talk about them, and from him I have borrowed a sort of Catholic almanac, which explains their present state. I shall purchase one in London, and turn it to good account. He tells me the Jesuits exist in England as a separate body, and have even a chapel in Norwich; but how they exist, and whence their funds are derived, is a secret to himself. This is a highly curious fact, and to me, particularly, a very interesting one: I shall make further inquiry. St. Winifred has lately worked a miracle at her Well, and healed a paralytic woman. These Catholics want only a little more success to be just as impudent as they were three centuries ago. . . . .
“God bless you, my dear Edith!
