The grief and anxiety I have suffered have brought upon me an
intermittent fever and various concomitant evils amongst which has
been an affection of the face and eyes. Had this not been the case I
should have written to you ere I left England, although it has cost me
a great effort to write to any one. I am now a good deal better and
will immediately correct the proofs I have received; but for the
future will you tell Mr. Shaw to send the proofs in as large a mass as
possible, addressed as follows and given in to the French diligence
office, à Monsieur G. P. James _chez_ M: C. A. Fries, Heidelberg en
Basle, _aux soins de_ Messrs. Eschenauer Cie, Strasburg, Via Paris,
_Pressé_.
This is a somewhat long address, but if it be not followed and the
proofs be sent by Rotterdam I shall never get one half of them till
two or three years after, for such was the case with many proofs of
_Edwd. the Black Prince_.
Any letter for me you had better direct at once to me “_aux soins de_
Sir G. Hamilton Seymour, G. C. H. Brussels.” When I am a little better
I will write you a longer letter telling you all our movements and
also what progress I have made in my plan for stopping continental
piracy; in which if you will give me your assistance and influence I
do not despair of succeeding although the Government will do nothing.
I have already made some way for I can talk without using my eyes.
Yours ever faithfully
G. P. R. JAMES.
This letter was written to McGlashan, in Lever’s care, at Brussels:
THE SHRUBBERY, WALMER,
2nd August, 41.