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Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 24. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Make my acknowledgements to Herries for the pamphlettGregres,clear view of the campaign of 1809 which must always be useful to one who has to write the
history of the events resulting from it. – Yet Grosvenor (between ourselves) it has not impressed me with any respect for the talents
of the author; & my I was fresh from the perusal of Pasley,
I do not mean by all this to say that party writers are not very useful in their generation, & that this is not a good party pamphlett. On the contrary it is good for its purpose, & its purpose is good. But it bears with it no indication that the writer could produce any thing better. – Of course you will not say any thing of this to Herries, – one should never say any thing to a man which tends to depreciate his friend
I must say something about Tom. You will readily believe that I am
exceedingly obliged to Herries even for the wish to serve him, & you
know that no one circumstance in the world would gratify me so much as to be <the> means of obtaining promotion for him.
If He was acting Commander in the LyraLyra, a 10-gun
class brig-sloop, launched in 1808.he last at sea, & came home superseded. I wish him no better fortune
than the command of such a vessel, – till he could make his way to a larger, which <& that> he would soon do if
opportunity were afforded him.
I cannot send you the sheets of the Registerni fallor
eled”, as old Bunyan says.ly quantity of parl. affairs, – & to the Austrian war.Neither The Booksellers will neither pay me nor thank me for this, & very likely the public will be graceless enough
to complain of having too much of it,And This is all the reward I expect <look to> for sitting so close at my desk, that in a short time I
expect Mr Edmondson & John Cockbaine
Not a syllable yet from Coleridge – if you see
<him> tell him that I request him to write, & that I hope he will soon return to Keswick.
When will the cursed practise of exposing troops in transports be altogether left off? Embark them in ships of war,
& every single ship might then run whenever a wind served. but of this in the next Quarterly. – By the by I am in mortal fear that
Gifford because of an unfortunate & very fallacious article in the first
number,
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