I fear blasphemies enough to break their jaws– 

B: Superb! - a letter from Hodgson (opens) news, deaths and defeats  - capital crimes

(laughs) and the misfortunes of one’s friends (both laugh) how very pleasant! (turns over) damn his eyes! no literary mat

- controversies - criticisms!B: And the little accomplishments I possess either in mind or body are derived from her and her alone!

I envy you the good Nottre Coals – which I think the best in the World, & which I always regret do not come up by the Canal as well as the Staffordshire which are much 1:4 inferior – it is rather extraordinary having hit upon such a Subject in a Letter to you but if ever one is to think of Coals or fire or Warmth, it seems justifiable at this moment for really I have been frozen all this last Week

I have been unwilling to write until I had something to say, an occasion to which I do not always restrict myself

I am one day in high health – and the next on fire or ice – in short I shall turn hypochondriacal – or dropsical – whimsical I am already – but don’t let me {get} tragical

effronterie, assailments    –Galt is here & I have seen him, he talks about his tomes in a manner that makes me suspect him to be deranged

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God knows, I have been guilty of many excesses, but as I have laid down a resolution to reform, and lately kept it

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civil buffeting

razor faced villan

perilous stuff​

foamed into a reformer

​Dr . Dori physicked him – I dare say he is dead by now

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Why now, saucy Tom?​

at present as miserable in mind and Body, as Literary abuse, , and total enervation can make me

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my future is of  no very promising appearance