“I cannot express to you how pleased I was to see
your note, and how much I regret not being able to meet you upon the day you
name, as I intend staying at Brocket Hall until June, to enjoy this most
beautiful season of the year. I wish I could induce you to come here instead,
if that is possible. I will send my carriage to Barnet to fetch you any day,
but not just at present, when we shall be with people. Write and tell me all
you would have said, or half, if you will not all. It shall be sacred unless
you permit otherwise. I am impatient to know what you have been doing since the
great work came
out. I read it, and admired it much. It is a more delightful and cheering view
of this world than the other.
I am no judge which is the truest. Pray tell me when you write (if you do) what
you think of the ‘Doge of
Venice,’ if you have read it, and also whether you are an
admirer of Cobbett. I
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