CHAP, in.] Extracts from Diary. 105 



May 26i/i. I went to take leave of my nephew, who 



entered at Dr. Gretton's School. 



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June 23rd. Paid my rent, and gave notice of quitting my 

 apartments at Michaelmas. 



June 25th. Began to pack up what I must take to Bath 

 with me, for there I am to go ! 



June 2,9th. I dined with Mrs. H. and went with her to 

 the Terrace, where I took leave of my friends at the Lodge. 

 Everything was arranged for my books and furniture to 

 remain at my lodging, to which my brother was to keep the 

 keys. But on receiving information they would be seized 

 along with my landlord's goods by bailiffs, I prepared the 

 same night for their removal, and all was safely lodged in a 

 garret at Mrs. H.'s by July 2 at night. 



July 3rd. I left Slough by the nine o'clock Newbury 

 coach, and remained with the Miss Whites [at Newbury] till 

 next morning. 



July 4th. At six in the evening I was received at Bath 

 by my brother Alex, and his old housekeeper in a house Mrs. 

 H. had taken for the next winter in Little Stanhope Street. 

 The house had been uninhabited, and the furniture moved 

 into it from the house on Sion Hill by strangers, labourers ; 

 the things met me helter-skelter in the passage, some 

 belonging to the drawing-room amongst curry-combs and 

 bridles and other stable utensils. My first care was to make 

 an inventory of the whole, before I let a stranger come into 

 the house, but by the 10th of July I hired a maid of all 

 work to assist me to bring the house into habitable order, 

 and by July 29th I was ready for resuming the work of re- 

 calculating sweeps, or despatching some copying, &c., which 

 was sent me by the coach from Slough, and from the 

 printer in London, my brother being with his family at 

 Tunbridge Wells. 



