This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ... Knoll, Ambleside, June 25. "Dear Mr. Payn, --I have not been forgetting you all this time--only waiting to learn what time is my own. A friend is coming from London, --a pop-visit on business, --and I was bound to keep myself clear of engagements during his stay. He comes, he now hopes, by Friday night's mail, so I am ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ... Knoll, Ambleside, June 25. "Dear Mr. Payn, --I have not been forgetting you all this time--only waiting to learn what time is my own. A friend is coming from London, --a pop-visit on business, --and I was bound to keep myself clear of engagements during his stay. He comes, he now hopes, by Friday night's mail, so I am at liberty to say that Mrs. Higginson and I and the two children will look in on you, weather permitting, on Wednesday evening, from 6 to 7. If that day should be wet, we will try Thursday. "Now, I don't know what to say about your coming here, --just to see us two, --for Mr. H. is gone. If you have a mind for a walk on Tuesday, and to come to tea at 7, we shall be most happy to see you. Don't trouble yourself to send an answer, for we shall certainly be at home and glad to see you; and if it is wet, of course we shall not look for you. ' I am truly thankful to you for the 'blue book' "--(a volume of poems just published by James Payn)--" which I expect to find rather unlike some of my studies that come under that title. I shall be very happy to make acquaintance with you in that way, as well as face to face. What a poet's lodging you have got! More 'blue books' will come out of it, 1 hope. I have written to Miss Mitford to thank her for sending you here. I am, dear sir, very truly yours, "H. Martineau." O. 3. 174. John Stuart Mill. The French Revolution: a History. By Thomas Carlyle. Second edition. Fraser, 1839. In the original cloth, uncut On the fly-leaf is written: --"With J. S. Mill's kind regards to R. Barclay Fox;" and it is the copy alluded to by Caroline Fox in her Journals. LL. 4. 175. John Milton. The Poetical Works of John Milton. With a Life of the Author by William Hayley. Three imperial folio ...
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