Reference
HG12/12a/1
Title
from William Cowper to Mr Jos. Hill, Chancery Office, London
Date free text
11 Feb 1766
Production date
From: 1766 To: 1766
Scope and Content
Writer's brother did, "submit the proper Estimates to my Lordly & Gentlemanlike Consideration; the Result of which is, that I am inclined to think myself in a condition to fadge through the year without increasing my debts, or derogating from the spendour of my
birth. It is my first purpose to live upon my income in which resolution I am supported by reflecting, that I have nothing else to Live upon. The proper income is the least part of the maintenance of some men, but then they are successfull either in gambling or robbing on the highway; resources to which my natural indolence has so many objections that I despair of ever surmounting 'em. In the mean time I am happy in my situation; I Love the people I am with,and they love me, and there is not a family in England that could afford me such, or greater comfort however, during interruption and suspension of almost every connexcon besides. I hear from you and Lady Hesketh - there are others to whom I have written, but a wintry kind if Indifference seems to have frozen up their Ink bottles. I wish them a gentle thaw, and wait for it with patience." While snow lasts writer reads to ladies while they work. They have
invented a new kind of battledore and shuttlecock in which 2 shuttlecocks are kept up at a time. Mrs Unwin and writer excellent at it. Is
free to use Mr Unwin's stud but walks much only riding to Cambridge. Has thanked Schutz for his services in the lecture matter.
end: I always have wished that Mr Unwin had not died and that they had all continued at Huntingdon - while there he seem'd comfortable and happy and his religious notions seem'd to produce that peace and content which it is their nature to inspire when genuine and sincere
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