Friday Oct 21.

I was cudgelling my brains last night, to find out how I could get money to buy that book for Mr. Boyd. At last I decided; & this morning executed my design. I wrote to Eliza who is at Worcester, & sent to her my editions of Bolingbroke’s & Harris’s works[1] to be disposed of at Eaton’s, desiring her to make him write immediately to Bohn for the Gregory. My books I wd. rather have not parted with; but my heart & soul are fixed on this new purchase. I did not look very regrettingly on them, while Ann was packing them up!— Sent the sheet of epigrams to the Times newspaper.[2] How happy I was yesterday, when my dear friend was dictating them,—& when WE were consulting about & reforming some of them!— He told me to put the bishops into verse for him, as puzzling about them, made his head heavy.

Read!—& heard the boys read!—

1. The Works of the Right Hon. Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, 7 vols. (London, 1754–98); The Works of James Harris, Esq., ed. James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury, 2 vols. (London, 1801).

2. They were not printed—perhaps E.B.B.’s epithet “treasonable” (20 October) supplies the explanation.


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