[29 — To John Hanson]
Harrow, 8 July, 1805.
My dear Sir, — I have just received a Letter from my Mother, in which she talks of coming to Town about the
commencement
of our Holidays. If she does, it will be impossible for me to call on
my Sister
, previous to my leaving it, and at the same time I cannot conceive what the Deuce she can want at this season in London. I have written to tell her that my Holidays commence on the 6th of August, but however, July the 1st is the proper day. — I beg that if you cannot find some means to keep her in the Country that you at least will connive at this deception which I can palliate, and then I shall be down in the country before she knows where I am. My reasons for this are, that I do
not wish
to be detained in Town so uncomfortably as I know I shall be if I remain with her; that
I do wish