Concerning his illness; his plans to leave Gainsborough; the upcoming publication of the first number of the Statesman. Letter includes his 'Epistle to Miss Kent'.
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Concerning his criticism of two pamphlets by Manzzini which contain appeals for interposition to relieve the Italian people from tyranny and despotism; dislikes Mazzini's manner as well as the matter of his appeal.
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Concerning his visit to Paris; mentioning the Louvre, the Theatre Francais; commenting on the ugliness of the streets and the simple-mindedness of the people, all of which he blames on Bonaparte and the monarchy.
Concerning the melancholy Sunday Hunt spent in Stafford; his "putting a little cheerful Christianity into the head of [their] host's daughter"; a description of the "blighted and burnt up" district of Birmingham; how he and Webbe behave like...