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National Library of Wales, MS 4811D. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I have amused myself with abusing the Reverend Robert
Banyard,
the word “incumbent”such
all such imitations in the new edition, they will rather display my learning
than poverty, — & besides an honest man ought not to deck himself in
borrowed splendour. magnanimates shall out.
We shall not agree upon Henry of Monmouths
I will send you Lloyds poems as reprinted with his others to London. that he should
have written & felt as he did for the death of his grandmother would not
be wondered at were it known what a woman she was. a cancer killed her — she
knew it to be incurable & bore it without in secresy for two years — it had eaten away the bone of her
thigh before she died — & yet she was never heard to groan or complain —
nor ever suffered any person to sit up with her . of such compleat Christian
fortitude as the whole of her conduct exhibited I never before heard. by the by
Nares has reviewed those poems in an infamous manner. be have a heart of very bad stuff. I am glad you
like his poems.
Bedford has not yet sent
the books. I condemn his general fickleness as severely as you can do — tho in
this case the folly seems to me to have been in taking up the study not in
abandoning it. as for being of use to mankind — it is a phrase of very wide
signification, & I & Ld Carysfort should probably
differ much in xxxx defining it. but I know not what he means to do — but I
believe his irresolution will [MS obscured]er leave him, & that he will
never be useful to others or happy in himself. I tell him this in my letters,
& he half acknowledges it. but he will not mend — & there is a
very excellent fellow spoilt.
God bless you.