My compliments to Mr. Ellis, and great many thanks for all favours. I think I heard that you were married to either Miss Jenny or Miss Nelly Hughes; if you are to one of them, I wish you good luck and my compliments to your spouse, and accept the same yourself. From, Dear Sir—Your most obedient humble Servant,
N.B.—I should be glad to hear from you at your leisure.
𝔏𝔩𝔶𝔱𝔥𝔶𝔯 3.
At RICHARD MORRIS
DEAR SIR,
Your favour of the 19th instant is come to my hands, and though I cannot sufficiently thank you for your good will, yet I can't tell how to accept the offer. My situation here is none of the best nor of the worst; it is considerably preferable to that you mention, but Anglesey has some advantages that Shropshire cannot boast of. How the market goes now I cannot tell, but in my time 20 pounds in Anglesey would have gone as far as 40 in Shropshire. But, above all, by living in Anglesey I should be able to make my lads Welshmen, which here is utterly impossible. We have a proverb, and a very true one, "A rolling stone gathers no moss." And except I had something better and more certain than a curacy, it is not, cannot be, worth my while to come to Wales. I could easily better myself by a curacy here in Shropshire; but the difference between one curacy and another is so very inconsiderable, that the best is not worth removing five miles for, and would hardly make one amends for his trouble in shifting and the damaging of his goods. Yet still they are better than in Wales. And what shall we say of removing wife and children
