Sunday the 5th. is my dearest Miranda's birthday
, may you live to enjoy many
many returns of that happy day
is the ardent & sincere wish of
your Mary Glover, My dear Mother
& Mrs. Lenton likewise join in their
best wishes for a very very long continuance
of your present good health
& many years of uninterrupted
happiness to you & your Dickenson.
I have been much hurried & hurt
about business of various kinds,
the chief is respecting Dr. Warton
My dear Anna Maria was with me the Sunday
morning when he called, & during
our conversation he said that he was
much surprised that Lord Palmerston
should have heard that he was consulted
about the publishing of my
Fathers manuscripts, & he seemed hurt
that it should be known, he had
desired me to get him some anecdotes
about my Father, which I did,

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and applied to Dr. Brocklesby as he had
known my dearest Father for upwards of
Forty years, when I showed Dr. Warton the paper
he took it, & said very angrily, it is
not english, & said he wished Dr. Brocklesby
might not be consulted as they had
had a difference some years ago &
he did not by any means wish to
see him, before he took his leave
he promised to go to Mr. Cadell
the bookseller & talk to him about
the works, he went away & I was
very happy to think my Affairs
were in such good train, on Monday
my dear Anna Maria wrote me a very long
letter to tell me she thought that
Dr. Warton was displeased at me, & that
she thought that he wished not to
write my Fathers life, & that as
his brother was poet Laureate & he
had sons in the church that it
might be of disadvantage to him &
his family, as the King must have
seen the paragraph which
Dr. Brocklesby put into the papers two days
after my dearest Fathers death. --

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& she concluded by saying that she thought
it would be generous of me to release him
from his promise, in short my dearest
Mrs. Dickenson I breakfasted with her on the Tuesday
morning & between us we wrote a letter to
him, & in the letter I released him entirely
from his promise of writing the life,
& sent it to S: street, I heard nothing
from him all Tuesday & Wednesday & I was
completely miserable between hope & fear
I desired my mother to write a note to him
which she did & in it she said that I was
quite unhappy lest he should have mistaken
any part of my letter & that she wished to see
him very much, he returned for answer that
he would call on her the next morning
which was on the Thursday, Thursday & Friday came
& no Dr. Warton nor a single line, I was quite
ill with anxiety, & he left Town on the Saturday
without sending & I have not heard
from him since he went to Winchester,
I am very uneasy & I think if I had had
you to have consulted with I should not
have got into this scrape, Miss Anna Clarke
talks of writing the latter end of this
week to him & explain to him the reason
of the letter being written, I think I shall
be much happier when she has
written, I have been quite ill upon
this account, but I am better.

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The other thing that has vexed me is about Richard Glover
My dear Father who had an estate in hand of about 600 a year
& which after his death went to Mrs. Vernon, & after her
to Richard & in case he dies without Issue it was to come
to me & my heirs for ever, Richard has been asking counsels
opinion to set the codicil aside in short to deprive me
of the entail, I am sure you will feel for me, It
has hurt me a good deal, he never calls I suppose he
is ashamed to show his face, the Plate was left to
my mother for life, she gave him an inventory of all
she had in her possession, he wrote to Mr. Blacke our
attorney, (& he is my trustee) to say that he had an inventory
but that there were large & small waiters, but
that indeed he did not know the sizes, & he wished