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Arthur Dixon letters

Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/3/1/1
Page: 17 verso


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    Letter of Arthur Dixon to John Joseph Cotman, 14 June 1834

    See summary at 17r

    Date: 1834

  • Transcription

    heart of your desponding friend. – Even now, with trepidation and a dread of the effect of disappointment I anticipate on the buoyancy of hope the morrow that is to bring me evidence of your existence health and welfare. – I wrote to you last Sunday, & though knowing how much you are engaged, I have twice daily hoped some coach or Post would bring me a word from you. I know too you have a thousand to say, but let less do. – Geldart & myself talk much about you & “I wonder”. Ryffel had a very bad cold all the time up to Wednesday when he went to Yarmouth & so we had but little music, erupting a song after dinner or supper, now & then. – But he is full, brimful, of that which makes him keep a head up like a pot of Porter. Love. ‘Love’ or something which politeness would induce us to call it, at any rate the simile would hold in one way, for were it blown off, he would be as flat as the Pewter without the froth. Elegant! – Twill be all over in a fortnight or thereabouts, so we endure it with charity and aid him through it, poor young thing! – I think they will be very happy together, if the planets are but propitious. – He has begun to

Letter of Arthur Dixon to John Joseph Cotman, 14 June 1834