Now recognizes that Dibdin's first name is John, not Timothy: "My dear, & now more so, John -- How that name smacks: what an honest, full, English, and yet withal holy and apostolic sound it bears, above the methodistical priggish Bishoppy name of Timothy, under which I had obscured your merits! What I think of the paternal verse, you shall read within, which I do assure you is not pen praise but heart praise, It is the gem of the Dibdin muses..." New house in Enfield: "I have got all my books into my new house, and their readers in a fortnight will follow, to whose joint converse nobody shall be more welcome than you & any of yours. The house is perfection to our use and comfort. Milton is come. I wish Wordsworth were here to meet him. The next important is of pots and saucepans, window curtains, crockery & such base ware. The pleasure of moving, when Becky moves for you. O the moving Becky! I hope you will come & warm the house with the first. From my temporary domicile, Enfield..." Signed Elia.
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