Thank you for your letter. Though I believed the Calderon to be on the
whole well done and entertaining, I began to wish to be told it was so by
others, for fear I had made a total mistake: which would have been a
bore. And the very free and easy translation lies open to such easy
condemnation, unless it be successful.
Your account of Sherborne rouses all the Dowager within me. I shall have
to leave this cottage, I believe, and have not yet found a place
sufficiently dull to migrate to. Meanwhile to-morrow I am going to one
of my great treats: viz. the Assizes at Ipswich: where I shall see little
Voltaire Jervis, {283a} and old Parke, {283b} who I trust will have the
gout, he bears it so Christianly.
_To G. Crabbe_.
BOULGE, WOODBRIDGE,
_Sept_. 12/53.