The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 06Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 06
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
English fiction -- 19th century; Families -- Fiction
2. Do, do. "Irish Emigration."
3. Hunt out second volume of Kames's "History of Man," passage
containing Reid's Logic,--don't know where the book is!
4. How does the line beginning Lumina conjurent, inter something,
end? Is it in Grey? See.
5. Fracastorius writes: Quantum hoe infecit vitium, quot adiverit
urbes. Query, ought it not, in strict grammar, to be injecerit,
instead of infecit? If you don't know, write to father.
6. Write the four letters in full from the notes I leave; i. e.,
about the Ecclesiastical Courts.
7. Look out Population Returns: strike average of last five years
(between mortality and births) in Devonshire and Lancashire.
8. Answer these six begging letters "No,"--civilly.
9. The other six, to constituents, "that I have no interest with
Government."
10. See, if you have time, whether any of the new books on the
round table are not trash.
11. I want to know All about Indian corn.
12. Longinus says something, somewhere, in regret for uncongenial
pursuits (public life, I suppose): what is it? N. B. Longinus is
not in my London catalogue, but is here, I know,--I think in a box
in the lumber-room.
13. Set right the calculation I leave on the poor-rates. I have
made a blunder somewhere, etc.
Certainly my father knew Mr. Trevanion; he never expected a secretary to
sleep! To get through the work required of me by half-past nine, I get
up by candle-light. At half-past nine I am still hunting for Longinus,
when Mr. Trevanion comes in with a bundle of letters.
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