. . . I am much _entete_ at present about one Matthews, {122} a preacher
at Bedford, who would do very well for Manchester in opposition to
Chartists, etc. If you are here on a Friday or a Sunday go and hear him.
I would gladly subscribe to remove him from Bedford. All this you will
think absurd; and so perhaps it is.
I have been reading Stobaeus' Anthology as I saunter in the fields: a
pretty collection of Greek aphorisms in verse and prose. The bits of
Menander and the comic poets are very acceptable. And this is really all
I have looked at all this summer.
BEDFORD, _August_ 29/42.