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Cornell University, Healey 3117. Previously published: L. N. Broughton, ‘Some Early Nineteenth Century Letters Hitherto Unpublished’, Nineteenth-Century Studies (Ithaca, NY:, 1940), 47–88.Dating note: from postmark.
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Your direction has been duely transmitted to the publisher of the Friend;
There is little of mine in the last Annual. Articles 8.9 of Chapter 1. 8.9. Chapt. 5. – 7.13 Chapt 6. – 1.3. Ch. 11. –
2.3 C12. – 33 Ch 7 are all,has ventured to attack Leckie, & having <thereby> to provoke Leckies letter in reply. It
is true that Letter will not circulate so extensively as the review, but when it circulates it will do him serious injury; – for that
Leckies statements are true to the very letter I have known, long before his book was published from the testimony of Coleridge, – who was necessarily – from his official situation at Malta, intimately
acquainted with the politics of Sicily.give him injure him, above all things bearing in mind
how highly probable it is that the man who writes a book upon any given subject, may must be better acquainted with that
subject than he who takes up the book as one of the chance xxxxx texts of criticism. Latterly I hope I have done this, –
& whenever I have not I have repented of it, & do still repent. In the third Quarterly you will see some ‘American Annals’
which went from hence,
You ask me respecting Burnett. I have heard nothing from him for two years, – for which these would be his reasons, – that he owes me five & twenty pounds, – & that he knows I greatly disapprove his conduct. I have heard however that he is far gone in consumption, & in all probability the next news will be of his death. How he has been living I know not, nor where he now is, – but from the time when he made that application to you, (which made as it was so unwarrantably I ought not to have afterwards in any manner sanctioned) he has gone on worse & worse, having completely corrupted himself by picking up French morality at second hand in Poland.
I have not seen Wm Taylors articles in the Critical.be not be able to exist at all, – at least not beyond a few insulated individuals. I do not think
the he much under-rates the Quarterly, but he over-dislikes it. He loves opposition, & if it gets round to be an
opposition review, then he will fall in liking with it. This I think it will do if the struggle in the Cabinet should end in Cannings overthrow.
Have you seen Wordsworths pamphlet?r Burn,it into its
spirit & philosophy.
My letter is nearly at its close, & I have not yet told you of my visit to Durham. I past a week with Harry & my new
sister. Concerning her state of health he ought to know best, – but the sound of her cough, & still more a way she has of
occasionally groaning when she breathes made me at times very melancholy –, & would have made me unhappy had I been her husband. In
all other points of view he seems to have chosen well, – yet this is the most important of all. I saw some Ladies at Durham who knew
you – their names I think are the same as that French pie which I do not know how to spell.