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National Library of Scotland, MS 3878. Previously published: Charles Cuthbert Southey (ed.), Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (London, 1849–1850), III, pp. 246–248 [in part]; H. J. C. Grierson (ed.), The Letters of Sir Walter Scott, 12 vols (London, 1932–1937), II, p. 206 [in part]
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
For permission to publish the text of MSS in their possession, the editor wishes to thank the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the Bodleian Library Oxford University; the British Library; Boston Public Library; the Syndics of Cambridge University Library; the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge; Haverford College, Connecticut; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the Hornby Library, Liverpool Libraries and Information Services; the Houghton Library, Harvard University; the John Rylands Library, Manchester; the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas; Luton Museum (Bedfordshire County Council); Massachusetts Historical Society; McGill University Library; the National Library of Scotland; the Newberry Library, Chicago; the New York Public Library (Pforzheimer Collections); the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; the Public Record Offices of Bedford, Suffolk (Bury St Edmunds) and Northumberland, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne; the Trustees of the William Salt Library, Stafford, the Wisbech and Fenland Museum; the University of Virginia Library.
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There are two channels thro which I could perhaps make application for Lord Lonsdales countenance, – thro Sir G. Beaumont who knows him well, & would try to serve me with more zeal for the sake of the woods, – & thro the
Senhouses, a family in the Lonsdale interest, with whom I am more intimate
than with any other in the county.
Wordsworths pamphlet will fail of producing any general effect, because the
sentences are long & involved, & his friend De Quincey who corrects
the press has rendered them more obscure by an unusual system of punctuation.xx familiarly intelligible, & he goes on unconscious either of the length of the
sentence, or the difficulty a common reader must necessarily find of following its meaning to the end, & unravelling all its
involutions.
A villainous cold which makes me sleep as late as I possibly can in the morning because the moment I wake it wakes with
me, has prevented me from finishing Kehama.
The Eclogue which I have sent Ballantyne has suffered a little
by having all its local allusions cut out.the his mercantile concerns. Gentlemen, said he, I am going to die, – & my
death will be an inconvenience to you, because it will be some time before you can get your accounts settled with my Executors – Now if
you will allow me a handsome discount, I’ll settle them myself at once. By this xxxxxx xxxxxxxxery xxxxxbly xxxxxx. They
came into the proposal & the old Alderman turned his death into nine hundred pounds profit. – If Queen Orraca is not too long for
the English Minstrelsy I will with great pleasure send off a corrected copy for it.
I feel so perfectly confident that of making a triumphant answer to Sir J Moores friends, that it will
greatly disappoint me if Gifford does not entrust James Moores history, &
the other books upon the subject to my hands.