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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, KESMG 1996.5.111. ALS; 3p. . Not previously published.
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I propound a question for your deliberation. My Vision must as a
matter of course be presented to the King.
You are not altogether mistaken about the effect which abuse has upon me, & now I shall have it by wholesale. The metre however will find advocates as well as assailants. The poem is of sufficient length for those who read it to get familiarized to the tune. And then I have this great advantage, that the most part of what may be said against me, will be put down (& with good reason) to party spirit, or personal ill-will.
I wait for a letter, or parcel from Longman, to learn whether they had
received the <my> Heliconia
I have lately received a French translation of Roderick in prose,
from the translator.
I have great confidence in the Vision, – in spite of the virulence which the subject will provoke. There are parts in it which I have never surpassed, & some splendid specimens of versification.