The Cotman Letters 1835-1837

one again from any cause either emanation from this spot or any other, for twas a sad doleful one, quite quite dumpy, dumpy, dumpy, and the lines very far apart, and the letters too, all halloooing hallooooo oo oo to each other. Both Edmund and Ann say you are in their debt Letters when I asked them to write to you, Therefore I have in mere compassion to you taken up the cudgels to bang you well, and to rouze the sleeping Cub of a Lion in you. How is Carlos. I think I must have him up with you, at Xmas, for I shall be glad to see him, for [[the]] I like the brute hugely. Yours my dear with all our best Loves.
J. S. Cotman.
I believe I have answered all your queer RRR

Thank Mr. J. Geldart for me for his remembrances and present my best to him and to Mr. A. Dixon.