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Arthur Dixon letters

Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/3/1/1
Page: 36 verso


  • Description

    Letter of Arthur Dixon to John Joseph Cotman, 15 November 1834

    See summary at 36r

    Date: 1834

  • Transcription

    Your health & spirits greatly chipped up as soon as the hot weather left us, & I know that you are (that is wisey warsey) like a Thermometer. We all are, if it be any comfort to you. I expect you are quite kedge again, so I shan’t be miserable about you, that is only ’till I hear again from you. I was about to say you deserve to be very wretched for making me so through the whole of the last Sunday. I exerted the full stretch of my magnanimity in repressing an intreaty which begged hard for insertion in the letter I sent you by Freeman on the 8th Inst, because I felt such a firm assurance in you that I thought it would be needless & that the next morning would prove it so, but alas, you are not to be trusted always and in future intreaties shall always find a place in my letters, & you will find yourself for every omission of making your old Friend happy, you will be pestered with the most importunate petitioning.
    Leave off the work or works which are so discouraging to you and as you will want some “Heads” when you come to Norwich set about drawing some for the Ladies here & that is a thing you can do & very well. I suppose you rec[eive]d mine by Freeman last Sunday or Monday?
    I thank you for giving me vexation in the place of despair –

Letter of Arthur Dixon to John Joseph Cotman, 15 November 1834