3rd February 1825

Recievd a letter from Hessey with £5 enclosed & a parcel containing 2 Nos. of the new series of London Mag, and Walladmor a German - Scotch novel if Job was living now he woud stand a chance to gain his wish 'O that mine enemy woud write a book' for this is the age of book making — & like the small-pox almost everybody catches the plague