Arthur Dixon letters

[Note added in pencil by Kitson:
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Norwich Monday Eve[nin]g 1st Sept. [1834 - added in pencil by Kitson]
My dear John
I no sooner despatch one gossip to you than I prepare to trouble you again and seem desirous at any rate to enforce "employment" for you. I'm going to be prosy indeed tonight, for I've found in a new number of the Quarterly that my good friend Spurgeon has sent, upon the first page something that strikes me as being very good and perhaps apposite to "all young men", so share it with me John, – if you were in my Sanctum now I should very naturally read it to you – as you are not, I think I cannot do better than transcribe it to you. – I sent you something funny this afternoon, now something grave. Geldart is at the Academy tonight – it rains hard, or I would step up to the Terrace – they seem so comfortable there & like their new house much. Geldart was painting at Barwells this morning & then about four oclock, we being seated snugly (for the rain made it seem very so in my Sanctum) did then and there pledge you in a fair bumper of Lisbon. But now to my work, an extract from a Letter to a young friend of Sharpe's the author who was the friend of Burke and Johnson.
"Luckily you have not to overcome the disadvantage of expecting to inherit an income equal to your reasonable desires. The Lord Chief Justice Kenyon said to a rich friend asking his opinion as to the probable success of a son "Sir let your son forthwith spend his fortune, marry, spend his wife's and then he may be expected to apply to his profession with energy. In your case I have no doubts but such as arise from my having observed that perhaps you sometimes may have relied rather too much on the quickness of your talents and too little on diligent study, – pardon me for owning this, and attribute my frankness to my regard. – It is unfortunate when a mans intellectual and his moral character are not suited to each other, the horse in a carriage should go the same direction & the same pace, or the motion will be