Henry Crabb Robinson, Athenaeum, to R. M. Milnes, [no address], 15 March [?]. 

Athenaeum 15 Mar:

Dear Sir

       I have read your Menippean Memorials with great pleasure which I gratefully acknowledge – Now you will translate the word gratefully in the French sense And understand by it that I am looking for a copy of the forthcoming Volume –

       I live too far East to expect an M: P: (especially during the Committee period) to call on me; besides, excepting the time I am in bed, I am twice as many hours here in the Temple – Now you pass the Club on an average four times a day

       I wish you would when disposed for half an hour’s chat were it only to lounge in the park on your way to one of those famed committees on <–> which you may exercise your strength in resisting the admitted political bias just enquire where I am within – There is seldom a day when I do not come –

             &c &c &c

                        H.C. Robinson

(turn over) [Robinson's note to read the following on the back of the letter]

When you have finished the [Bursehin?Burschen?] Comment and the Songs you need not trouble your Servant to bring them down to the Temple – Let them be left here It is one of my Idiosyncrasies to like having books in my books –

Endorsed:  C Robertson [sic] 

Text: Houghton Papers, MS 21/172, Trinity College, Cambridge.