“My share of books divide amongst my friends. In case of my death this
scrap of paper may be serviceable in your possession.
“All my estate, real and personal, consists in the hopes of the sale
of books, published or unpublished. Now I wish ---- and you to be the
first paid creditors--the rest is _in nubibus_--but, in case it should
shower, pay ---- the few pounds I owe him.”
Although too late to afford him any satisfaction or comfort, it did
“shower” at last; and that, too, from a source which, in its general
aspect, bears all the gloominess of a cloud, without any of its
refreshing or fertilizing anticipations--I mean the Court of Chancery.
This unexpected “shower” was sufficiently copious to enable the
fulfilment of all the wishes expressed in the above note. His friends
have therefore the gratification of knowing that no pecuniary loss has
been (or need have been) sustained, by any one of those with whom he was
connected, either by friendship or otherwise.