TO BAILEY
1818]
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consolation from the thought of writing one or two more poems before it ceases. I have heard some hints of your retiring to Scotland I should like to know your feeling on it it seems rather
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Perhaps Gleig will have a duty near you. I am not certain whether I shall be able to go any journey, on account of my Brother Tom, and a little indisposition If I do not you shall see me soon, if no on of my own. my return or I'll quarter myself on you next winter. I had known my sister-in-law some time before she was my I like her better and sister, and was very fond of her. better. She is the most disinterested woman I ever knew that is to say, she goes beyond degree in it. To see an entirely disinterested girl quite happy is the most It pleasant and extraordinary thing in the world On my word depends upon a thousand circiunstances remote.
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Women must want
Imagination, and and so may we, that a delicate being can feel happy without any sense of crime. It puzzles me, and I have no sort of logic to comfort me I am not at home, and your letter I shall think it over. being there I cannot look it over to answer any particular If I only I must say I feel that passage of Dante. take any book with me it shall be those minute volumes
it is
extraordinary.
they
may thank God
for it
;
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of Carey, for they will go into the aptest comer.
Reynolds
is
getting,
I
may
—
say, robust, his
illness
like every one just recovered, has been of service to him he is high-spirited I hear also good accounts of Rice. With respect to domestic literature, the Edinburgh Magazine, in another blow-up against Hunt, calls me " the amiable Mister Keats " and I have more than a laurel from the Quarterly Reviewers for they have I want to read you my smothered me in "Foliage." " Pot of Basil " if you go to Scotland, I should much like to read it there to you, among the snows of next
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winter.
Your
My
Brothers' remembrances to you.
affectionate friend
John Keats.