The life and letters of Laurence Sterne . e home-wards without enquiring whether there wasanything in this part of the world I could do orpurchase for your lordship, before I have run over everything in my mind, butcan think of nothing except wine, of which Iwould gladly send you a hogshead as a speci-men. You must know, my Lord, that the vintagethis year about Bordeaux is quite destroyed bya terrible hail, which cut up all the vines through-out the whole district which furnishes you withso very much good claret in England. This, Ifind, has set many commissions a going in thisneighb
The life and letters of Laurence Sterne . e home-wards without enquiring whether there wasanything in this part of the world I could do orpurchase for your lordship, before I have run over everything in my mind, butcan think of nothing except wine, of which Iwould gladly send you a hogshead as a speci-men. You must know, my Lord, that the vintagethis year about Bordeaux is quite destroyed bya terrible hail, which cut up all the vines through-out the whole district which furnishes you withso very much good claret in England. This, Ifind, has set many commissions a going in thisneighbourhood, to buy up the strong, ordinarywines, which,—as they will bear the sea andcan be shipped for 40s. a hogshead at Lett, nearthis town, and landed at London for 20s. more—will not be drunk at more than 2s. a your Lordship understands this calculationbetter than I ; this I am persuaded of, that upon him, see Mr. Thomas Seccombes admirable Introduction toSmolletts Travels through France and Italy (Worlds Classics,1907).. LAURENCE STERNE. (See p. 22.)From a painting by Ramsay at Jesus College, Cambridge. 33 AT TOULOUSE AND MONTPELLIER 35 many hundred tons will be both given andbought for French wine—which they truly arein one sense, though not in another. If, uponthe whole, your Lordship thinks a couple of hogs-heads worth the duty, I should be very happyin being allowed to present you with them,which I will warrant shall be the best of theirkind, as I am in particular friendship with aperson here who has a large commission for thevines of this present vintage, to ship to Lordship will let me have the honour ofa line upon this head, and of a much morevaluable one, your Lordships health, which Ihope is better by Coxwould air and Coxwouldexercise. The air is as cold, by fits, here aswith you, and Im persuaded in winter will bemore thin and penetrating, but the air is elasticand the sky generally clear, and the temptationsto get out o doors more freq
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