Arthur Dixon letters

[Note added in pencil:
4 - crossed out
Horace Love
Monday
5
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Norwich March 31st 1834
My dear John
I had almost said "A plague upon the engagements which left you little time to tell me the great many things you had to say", but you were enjoying the hours & giving my brother the pleasure of your society and the advantages thereof – & so I am thankful that you did so & gave me a word into the bargain & a word too which makes me hope for more, and this [with - crossed out] in the present enjoyment of the receipt of a fresh pledge of your remembrance and anticipation of more. I give you my hand full of thanks and beg you will think me as happy as the notice of a dear Friend can make one. Love will be in London soon, Horace I mean. He has a commission from Geldart to make a drawing from your head for himself. I had no commission to tell you this, but you will then John have an opportunity I hope of doing me the pleasure you promised me, & remind him then of the miniature copy he made from Rembrandt, for he has lately made a study from that Gypsy Boy after that manner which is [the - crossed out] a most beautiful thing:– I shall not speak to Love of it, as I think you would prefer ordering it yourself. – Poor Captain Moore whom I had not seen since that Evening you were here just now called – he has been in some sort of confinement since then & is now under surveillance of a mild description – a fine, noble ruin, poor fellow! – I have