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... JULY - [ Edinburgh , ] July 1st . Another sunny day . This threatens absolutely Syrian drought . As the Selkirk election comes on Monday , I go out to - day to Abbotsford , and carry young Davidoff and his Tu : with me , to see our ...
... JULY - [ Edinburgh , ] July 1st . Another sunny day . This threatens absolutely Syrian drought . As the Selkirk election comes on Monday , I go out to - day to Abbotsford , and carry young Davidoff and his Tu : with me , to see our ...
Page 206
... July 22. - The same severe headache attends my poor pate . But I have worked a good deal this morning , and will do more . I wish to have half the volume sent into town on Monday if possible . It will be a royal effort , and more than ...
... July 22. - The same severe headache attends my poor pate . But I have worked a good deal this morning , and will do more . I wish to have half the volume sent into town on Monday if possible . It will be a royal effort , and more than ...
Page 570
... July 3. - Corrected proofs in the morning , and wrote a little . I was forced to crop vol . i . as thirty pages too long ; there is the less to write behind . We were kept late at the Court , and when I came out I bethought me , like ...
... July 3. - Corrected proofs in the morning , and wrote a little . I was forced to crop vol . i . as thirty pages too long ; there is the less to write behind . We were kept late at the Court , and when I came out I bethought me , like ...
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