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home to eat a bit of roast chicken and peas at about nine o'clock. Mama depends upon your bringing Tom over to-morrow, and if you don't we shall be very much disappointed. Tell the bearer not to forget to bring me a fairing, which is some gingerbread, sweetmeat, hunting-nuts, and a pocket-book. Now I end.

I am not

Your obedient servant,

P. B. SHELLEY.

[No. 2.]

DEAR SIR,-I understand that to obviate future difficulties, I ought now to make marriage settlements. I entrust this to your management, if you will be kind enough to take the matter in hand. In the course of three weeks or a month, I shall take the precaution of being remarried, before which I believe these adjustments will be necessary. I wish the sum settled on my wife in case of my death to be £700 per

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kind as to address me at Mr. Westbrook's, 23, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square? We most probably go to London to-morrow. We shall see Whitton, when I shall neither forget your good advice, nor cease to be grateful for it. With kind remembrances to your family,

Yours most gratefully,

PERCY B. SHELLEY.

Cuckfield, Oct. 21, 1811.

To T. C. Medwin, Esq.,

Horsham.

[No. 3.]

Keswick, Cumberland.
Nov. 26, 1811.

MY DEAR SIR, -We are now in this lovely spot, where for a time we have fixed our residence. The rent of our cottage, furnished, is £1 10s. per week. We do not intend to take

up our abode here for a perpetuity, but should wish to have a house in Sussex. Perhaps you would look out for us. Let it be in some picturesque, retired place-St. Leonard's Forest, for instance.

Let it not be nearer to London

than Horsham, nor near any populous manuWe do not covet either a

facturing town.

I was

propinquity to barracks. Is there any possible method of raising money without exorbitant interest until my coming of age? I hear that you and my father have had a rencontre. surprised that he dared to attack you, but men always hate those whom they have injured; this hatred was, I suppose, a stimulant which supplied the want of courage. Whitton has written to me to state the impropriety of my letter to my mother and sister; this letter I have returned, with a passing remark on the back of it. I find that affair on which those letters spoke is become the general gossip of the idle newsmongers of Horsham. They give me credit of having invented it. They do my invention much

honour, but greatly discredit their own pene

tration.

My kind remembrances to all friends, believe

me, dear sir,

Yours most truly,

P. B. SHELLEY.

We dine with the Duke of N. at Graystock

this week.

T. C. Medwin, Esq.

Horsham,

Sussex.

[No. 4.]

Keswick, Cumberland,

Nov. 30, 1811.

MY DEAR SIR,-When I last saw you, you

mentioned the possibility, alluding at the same time to the imprudence, of raising money even at my present age, at seven per cent. We are now so poor as to be actually in danger of every day being deprived of the necessaries of life. In two

years, you hinted that I could obtain money at legal interest. My poverty, and not my will consents (as Romeo's apothecary says), when I request you to tell me the readiest method of obtaining this. I could repay the principal and interest, on my coming of age, with very little detriment to my ultimate expectations. In case you see obvious methods of effecting this, I would thank you to remit me a small sum for immediate expenses; if not, on no account do so, as some degree of hazard must attend all my acts, under age, and I am resolved never again to expose you to suffer for my imprudence. Mr. Westbrook has sent me a small sum, with an intimation, that we are to expect no more; this suffices for the immediate discharge of a few debts; and it is nearly with our very last guinea, that we visit the Duke of N., at Graystock, to-morrow. We return to Keswick on Wednesday. I bave very few hopes from this visit. That reception into Abraham's bosom appeared to me to be the consequence of some

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